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We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.
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When it was done and I went to sleep, I lay awake and listened to the clock on your nightstand and the wind outside and understood that I was really home, that in bed with you was home, and something that had been getting close in the dark was suddenly gone. It could not stay. It had been banished. It knew how to come back, I was sure of that, but it could not stay and I could really go to sleep. My heart cracked with gratitude. I think it ..
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love
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Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.
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Stephen King |
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6cff7a9
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Long days and pleasant nights.
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Stephen King |
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e4b3205
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What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.
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man-in-black
roland
stephen-king
falling
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Stephen King |
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fce6dc4
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A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.
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Stephen King |
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72537ed
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People say that where there's life, there's hope, and I have no quarrel with that, but I also believe the reverse. There is hope, therefore I live.
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Stephen King |
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Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story
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Your man Jesus seems to me a bit of a son of a bitch when it comes to women,'Roland said. 'Was He ever married?' The corners of Callahan's mouth quirked. 'No' he said, 'but His girlfriend was a whore.' 'Well,' Roland said, 'that's a start.'
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women
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Stephen King |
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a0f7532
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You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.
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insanity
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Stephen King |
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e6f0111
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She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.
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Stephen King |
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271f0a7
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The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.
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Stephen King |
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d799333
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I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we're still alive.
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life
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Stephen King |
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a9b8db0
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Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.
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Stephen King |
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92baa97
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Time heals all wounds.
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time
wound
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Stephen King |
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e1a709c
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Politics always change. Stories never do.
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Stephen King |
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64fa099
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Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.
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Stephen King |
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f17d7ec
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All I can say is what you already know: some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life there are a few. That was one of mine, and when I'm blue -- when life comes down on me and everything looks tawdry and cheap, the way Joyland Avenue did on a rainy day -- I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they are precious.
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Stephen King |
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2385bff
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I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.
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Stephen King |
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He was a romantic in his own harsh way...yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.
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Stephen King |
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Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster
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Stephen King |
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The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" I thought we had been." But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. "Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!"
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Stephen King |
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b6c7432
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The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may mak..
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Stephen King |
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You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.
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Stephen King |
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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 |
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069b9cd
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The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?" Yes." My Imagination." I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination." Roland and Eddie"
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gunslinger
roland
the-dark-tower
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Stephen King |
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ede9298
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Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks
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Stephen King |
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9b0fc17
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When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.
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Stephen King |
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dd60ebb
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True sorrow is as rare as true love.
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sorrow
love
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Stephen King |
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546aafd
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You can't be careful on a skateboard.
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Stephen King |
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e70a95d
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Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
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Stephen King |
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e8039ce
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Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.
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Stephen King |
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Religion is the theological equivalent of a quick-buck insurance scam, where you pay in your premium year after year, and then, when you need the benefits you paid for so--pardon the pun--so religiously, you discover the company that took your money does not, in fact, exist.
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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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a53af60
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People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?
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humor
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In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.
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time
life
wind-through-the-keyhole
roland
stephen-king
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b2157c6
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oh shit it's shit
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seasons
hayworth
novella
rita
shawshank-redemption
shit
stephen-king
prison
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Stephen King |
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0be0da3
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where the world ends is where you must begin
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Stephen King |
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5d50808
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Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.
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Stephen King |
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b6b1e6c
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May be she'll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.
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Stephen King |
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7fe0062
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For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.
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Stephen King |
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bbe7084
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What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
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Stephen King |
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For readers, one of life's most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers--not just capable of doing it (which Morris already knew), but in love with it. Hopelessly. Head over heels. The first book that does that is never forgotten, and each page seems to bring a fresh revelation, one that burns and exalts: Yes! That's how it is! Yes! I saw that, too! And, of course, That's what I think! That's what I FEEL!
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Stephen King |
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d16c3d4
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Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.
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