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The Face QUOTES

1 " He is like a man living through the night before doomsday, with full knowledge that the sun will go nova in the morning, yet unable to enjoy the precious pleasures of this world because all his energy is devoted to wishing desperately that the foreseen end will not, after all, come to pass. "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

2 " When steel sagged, when clothes grew moth-eaten on haberdashery racks, when cars rusted on showroom floors for want of customers, the film industry nevertheless flourished. In bad times as in good, the only two absolute necessities were food and illusions. "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

3 " Every palace and every work of art is only dust as yet unrealized, and time is the patient wind that will whither it all away. "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

4 " Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes. You can't worry about them for a minute. They're hopeless. "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

5 " ... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown. "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

6 " Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes."

"The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape. "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

7 " The world is hat we make it, and our future is ours to shape. "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

8 " Now, an hour later, Ethan stood at a window, gazing at the rain, like threads of seed pearls, accessorizing the hills of Bel Air.
Watching weather clarified his thinking.
Sometimes only nature felt real, while all human monuments and actions seemed to be the settings and the plots of dreams. "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

9 " Lying won't get you anything but misery. "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

10 " .......She said you need to eat well, say prayers without fail each morning and night, and avoid drinking strong spirits."
"One problem. Drinking strong spirits is how I pray. "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

11 " Regardless of how rough we may appear on the exterior, each of us had a human heart. "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

12 " WHEN A FIERCE-LOOKING GUY COMES OUT of a mirror as though it’s a doorway, and when he grabs for you and snags your shirt with his fingertips, you could be excused for wetting your pants or for losing total control of your sphincter, so "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

13 " You could make yourself a little crazy, even certifiable, if you insisted that life always proceed according to some this-because-that system of logic. Occasionally you had to accept the inexplicable. "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

14 " Biedermeier— "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

15 " He’d read a shitload of stupid things, in fact, and most of them were probably just made up by stupid novelists trying to make a buck while they peddled their stupid screenplays to stupid producers. "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

16 " industrious people, regardless of the quality of what their labor produced, rarely committed violent crimes. Only in movies did successful businessmen routinely indulge in murder and mayhem in addition to corporate responsibilities. "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

17 " Besides, hatred only destroys the hater. "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

18 " Britney Spears tunes out of its butt, that would have been proof. "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

19 " If Fric reported what had happened in the attic, Mr. Truman would think that he’d been smoking weed. He would lose whatever "

― Dean Koontz , The Face

20 " sough "

― Dean Koontz , The Face