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Life Expectancy

Dean Koontz

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.”

“No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.”

“If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I'm the lead character in the story, but like every man and woman on Earth, I am a suporting player in one of billions of subplots. You know what happens to supporting players. Too often they are killed off in chapter 3, or in chapter 10, or in chapter 35. A supporting player always has to be looking over his shoulder.”

“...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.”

“The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.”

“But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.”

“We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.”

“Insanity is not evil, but all evil is insane. Evil itself is never funny, but insanity sometimes can be. We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil’s power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.”

“for laughter is the perfect medicine for the tortured heart, the balm for misery,”

“When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance.”

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Book Keywords:

happiness, family, evil

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