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ecd1fd8
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Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
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fear
eddie
grownups
stephen-king
it
pennywise
monster
horror
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Stephen King |
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55ef4bb
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Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
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bill
grownups
stephen-king
it
pennywise
childhood
horror
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Stephen King |
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53fee52
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Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
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humour
idiots
computers
hacker-folklore
it
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Charles Stross |
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d3b1e3c
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Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.
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magic
lucky
number
richie
seven
stephen
it
pennywise
king
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Stephen King |
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1dcf117
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"Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!"
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murder
death
stephen
it
pennywise
kill
monster
horror
king
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Stephen King |
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a0a5287
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The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself - that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by something much duller, something as bogus as a coke high: purpose, maybe, or goals, or whatever rah-rah Junior Chamber of Commerce word you wanted to use. It was no big deal; it didn't go all at once, with a bang. And maybe, Richie thought, that's the scary part. How you didn't stop being a kid all at once, with a big explosive bang, like one of that clown's trick balloons. The kid in you just leaked out, like the air of a tire.
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it
growing-up
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Stephen King |
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a78cab9
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stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE
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kids
stephen-king
it
pennywise
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Stephen King |
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2aeedce
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"Your hair is winter fire, January embers.
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love-quotes
love
ben-hanscom
stephen-king
it
hair
haiku
fire
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Stephen King |
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6a16b05
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For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.
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reality
eddie
stephen
it
pennywise
nightmare
king
|
Stephen King |
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81df920
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Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.
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humor
stephen-king
it
|
Stephen King |
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5fcea09
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I like it when somebody gets excited about something.
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excited
gets
somebody
i
it
something
like
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J.D. Salinger |
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640bd9f
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The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive...
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living
flannery
mason
o-connor
tarwater
away
bear
the
violent
it
dead
|
Flannery O'Connor |
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f1eda4e
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Helpfiles are traditionally outnumbered by no-help files, which superficially resemble a helpfile in form but not in content because they don't actually tell you anything you don't already know, or they answer every question except the one you're asking, or you open them and a giant animated paper clip leaps out and cheerfully asks where you want to go today. And wikis are worse.
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computers
it
help
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Charles Stross Cory Doctorow |
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02eb2be
|
I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it?
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how
till
you-re
going
what
you
it
to
know
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J.D. Salinger |
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f7b5ecb
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"This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever "it" is and however small the thing it is they do."
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it
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Ben Aaronovitch |
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edc9aeb
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But you don't have to be a bad guy to depress somebody-you can be a good guy and do it.
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depress
good-guy
somebody
don-t
do
it
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J.D. Salinger |