"I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow."

-- Dean Koontz

#Dog Quotes #Believe Quotes #Past Quotes

“When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for the first fifty pages or so, and boasted some true linguistic genius at times, but none of those writers could occupy more than one mind at once.”
“It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money.”
“What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about talking to you. When someone tells me a thing that happened, what do I feel inside? I want to get the story out. It's for the person who reads it to have the feeling . . . In most cases the person I encounter is not a celebrity; rather the ordinary person. "Ordinary" is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. (p. 176)”
“Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.”
“When I first came to the Eagles, I found a bunch of guys shell-shocked from losing. They had been through some lean years, they just didn't know how to handle the pressure. They were quiet; they kept to themselves. I said, " Hey, this has gotta change. Let's make pressure fun."”
“The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.”

Source : Karin Fossum (2007). “When the Devil Holds the Candle”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It's all the same when you're lonely”

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