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They say The Pacific has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.
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I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity.
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life
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Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.
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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
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Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.
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loneliness
lonely
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In these silences something may rise
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Beyond the reach of human rage A drop of hell, a touch of strange ...
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One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander's last meal.
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As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.
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marquez
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The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to trash your life. That was what was so scary. You just dragged the fan up to everything you had spent the years raking together and turned the motherfucker on.
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Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your heart they only die a little at a time, don't they? Like a plant when you go away on a trip and forget to ask a neighbor to poke in once in awhile with the old watering-can, and its so sad--
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Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the are funny but because your own is funny.
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Life sucks, then you die
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Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.
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Can I? Yeah. You bet I can. There's a million things in this world can't do. Couldn't hit a curve ball, even back in high school. Can't fix a leaky faucet. Can't roller-skate or make an F-chord on the guitar that sounds like anything but shit. I have tried twice to be married and couldn't do it either time. But if you want me to take you away, to scare you or involve you or make you cry or grin, yeah. I can. I can bring it to you and keep b..
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No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.
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Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.
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Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.
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Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.
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It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.
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I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
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It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.
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writing
tools
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Rich people can be generous, even the ones with bloodcurdling political views can be generous, but most believe in generosity on their own terms, and underneath (not so deep, either), they're always afraid someone is going to steal their presents and eat their birthday cake.
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You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written, but I know it's true. If I had a nickel for every person who ever told me he/she wanted to become a writer but "didn't have time to read," I could buy myself a pretty good steak dinner. Can..
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writing
stephen-king
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Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.
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But he had never seen Myrna in practice...never that close up. He had been impressed and a little frightened by the contrast between seeing ballet on stange, where everyone seemed to either glide or mince effortlessly on the tips of their pointes. and seeing it from less than five feet away, with harsh daylight pouring in the floor-to-ceiling windows and no music- only the choreographer rythmically clapping his hands and yelling harsh criti..
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As for the end of the universe...I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?
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randall-flagg
walter-o-dim
walter-padick
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The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.
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At the time we're stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It's not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.
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Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.
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FEAR stands for face everything and recover - Old AA saying
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And what about those [writers' workshop] critiques, by the way? How valuable are they? Not very, in my experience, sorry. A lot of them are maddeningly vague. someone may say. It seems to occur to few of the attendees that if you have a feeling you just can't describe, you might just be, I don't know, kind of like, my sense of it is, maybe in the wrong fucking class.
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When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.
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You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.
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hopelessness
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Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.
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I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose I had. On some level, unless we're mad, I think most of us know the various voices of our own imaginations. And of our memories, of course. They have voices, too. Ask anyone who has ever lost a limb or a child or a long-cherished dream. Ask anyone who blames himself for a bad decision, usually made in a raw instant (a..
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I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.
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television
reading
writing
pride
thought
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I read a jaw-dropping online defense of these weapons from a California woman recently. Guns, she said, are just tools. Like spoons, she said. Would you outlaw spoons simply because some people use them to eat too much? Lady, let's see you try to kill twenty schoolkids with a fucking spoon.
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Stephen King |
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Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend
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Stephen King |
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I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.
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I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.
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Stephen King |
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Why must you hurt me, when I love you so? When I can do nothing else nor want to, for love made me and fed me and kept me in better days? Why will you cut me, and disfigure my face, and fill me with woe? I have only loved you for your beauty as you once loved me for mine in the days before the world moved on. Now you scar me with nails and put burning drops of quicksilver in my nose; you have set the animals on me, so you have, and they hav..
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the-beam
the-dark-tower
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Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.
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Stephen King |
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65a6af9
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A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.
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