Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.


Dean Koontz

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It is another piece of information that on its own means nothing.
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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
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Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous
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I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and p...
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Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I sai...
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Some big guys, they think struttin' the muscle will put your tail between your legs, but all they go...
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The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors.
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Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life wo...
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They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the...
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Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.
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I thought you married me for my looks, my sensitivity, and my fabulous bedroom stamina."

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Although he was a young and virile man at 37, he was not inexhaustible. In addition to food and drin...
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It's difficult to spend time in any carnival or amusement park and not realize that a repressed fear...
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You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.
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From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having ...
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That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born o...
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She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she w...
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For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
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One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I...
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I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
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That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.
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Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.
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The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with...
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The galleon clouds seemed to have dropped anchor in the sky, and the night appeared to have frozen i...
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Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog...
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it grinned the foolish and charmingly witless grin of all dogs who had ever ridden shotgun in such a...
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Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it ...
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Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life c...
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There’s such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But ...
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He continued to stroke its back and scratch its ears, but after a minute or two he realized he was s...
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any rea...
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He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not ...
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His love was an architect that entirely remade the reality of the chapel, transforming it into a cat...
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The dog chose more letters, waited for them to study the words, then looked solemnly at each of them...
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But this animal’s unadulterated joy in being alive was like a spotlight that pierced Travis’s in...
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