a3e5c23
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People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.
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learning
changing
stephen
king
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Stephen King |
b91fe47
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The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
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stephen
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Stephen King |
d708ea6
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In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
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man
life
richards
richard
ben
network
dystopia
stephen
survival
running
king
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Stephen King |
eec2bf5
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"When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!"
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mr-norrell
thistle-down-hair
jonathan-strange
scotland
stephen
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Susanna Clarke |
ab06d9e
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"When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!" --
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mr-norrell
thistle-down-hair
jonathan-strange
scotland
stephen
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Susanna Clarke |
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 |
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 |
7551d4d
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Craziness is only a matter of degree, and there are lots of people besides me who have the urge to roll heads. They go to stock-car races and the horror movies and the wrestling matches they have in Portland Expo. Maybe what she said smacked of all those things, but I admired her for saying out loud, all the same--the price of honesty is always high. She had an admirable grasp of the fundamentals. Besides, she was tiny and pretty.
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rage
stanner
charlie
richard
grace
decker
stephen
king
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Richard Bachman |
2d4dc6d
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Once again there was the desert, and that only.
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man
dark
tower
chambers
deschain
gunslinger
jake
roland
stephen
desert
king
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Stephen King |
10e7518
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Be just before you are generous.
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ulysses
generous
ireland
just
james-joyce
stephen
justice
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James Joyce |
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
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Stephen King |
fe0cdd2
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You've got a shitty habit, you know it? I've noticed it on all those TV drive-safely pitches that you do. You breathe in people's ears. You sound like a stallion in heat, Philbrick. That's a shitty habit. You also sound like you're reading off a teleprompter, even when you're not. You ought to take care of stuff like that. You might save a life.
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rage
philbrick
charlie
richard
decker
stephen
king
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Richard Bachman |
4083938
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He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
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man
responsibility
stephen
running
pride
manhood
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Stephen King |
0378ca7
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Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like one of those weird experiences you read about in the Penthouse Forum. I had taken off his witch doctor's mask and made him human. But I didn't hold it against him. To err is only human, but it's divine to forgive. I believe that sincerely.
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rage
charlie
richard
grace
decker
stephen
king
psychology
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Richard Bachman |
2e4d9d6
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He was a heavy breather. You could hear him puffing and blowing into the mike up there like some large and sweaty animal. I don't like that, never have. My father is like that on the telephone. A lot of heavy breathing in your ear, so you can almost smell the scotch and Pall Malls on his breath. It always seems unsanitary and somehow homosexual.
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rage
charlie
richard
decker
stephen
breathing
king
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Richard Bachman |
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Herk threw up the mouse, the hamburger he'd eaten for lunch, and some pasty glop that looked like tomato soup. He was just starting to ask his mother what was going on when she threw up. And there, in all that puke, that old dead mouse didn't look bad at all. It sure looked better than the rest of the stuff.
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rage
charlie
disgusting
richard
vomit
decker
stephen
king
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Richard Bachman |