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The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis. A man grows what he can, and he tends it. 'Cause what you buy, is what you own. And what you own... always comes home to you.
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She was smart and terribly determined, this girl-her will was pure steel, through and through-but she was as human as anyone else. She was lonely, too. Lonely in a way that perhaps only single girls fresh from small Midwestern towns know. Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in m..
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determined
homesickness
single
lonely
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Stephen King |
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cf5aebf
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Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.
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Stephen King |
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9e511b3
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I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.
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gratitude
friendship
harsh-world
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Stephen King |
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caecf74
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Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.
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Stephen King |
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c123f00
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I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.
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truth
rumors
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Stephen King |
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0647d68
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At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of him on the Drop, riding Rusher flat out with his black hair flying back from his temples and his neckerchief rippling; to see him laughing with an ease and freedom he would never find again in the long life which stretched out for him beyond hers..
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death
susan
susan-delgado
wizard-and-glass
dark-tower
roland
stephen-king
fire
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Stephen King |
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f9d754e
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Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
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Stephen King |
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Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.
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Stephen King |
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6bb2a04
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All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.
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stephen-king
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Stephen King |
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db2becf
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Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
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happiness
love
hearts-in-atlantis
stephen-king
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Stephen King |
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65aab04
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Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.
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Stephen King |
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bb90dab
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The medical definition of is misdiagnosis.
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Stephen King |
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7a9e4f2
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Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.
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Stephen King |
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a122245
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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
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stephen-king
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Stephen King |
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104d639
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And this wasn't lying, not really. It was leaving out.
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Stephen King |
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22854da
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There's always someone who knows something.
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Stephen King |
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e84bec2
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Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.
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Stephen King |
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5aedb49
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Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?
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Stephen King |
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0ec0df6
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A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.
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woman
love
cheating-spouse
cheating
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Stephen King |
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c50621d
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She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.
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Stephen King |
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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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e26e7be
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You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.
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memories
life-experience
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Stephen King |
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a23a539
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The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.
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Stephen King |
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aad19b9
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Then, instead of telling her that where there was life there was hope, or to let a smile be her umbrella, or that it was always darkest just before the dawn, or anything else that had just lately fallen out of the dog's ass, she simply held her. Because sometimes only holding was best. That was one of the things she had taught that man whose last name she had taken for her own--that sometimes it was best to be quiet; sometimes it was best t..
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Stephen King |
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600cc82
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Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikel..
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politics
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Stephen King |
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ce5f88e
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Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...' You dare not.' And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.
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Stephen King |
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5dcc896
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Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject. What we is this: When we die, one of two things happens. Either our souls and thoughts somehow survive the experience of dying or they don't. If they do, that opens up every possibility you could think of. If they don't, it's just..
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Stephen King |
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bc980d7
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I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was." "Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly. "It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town."
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horror
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Stephen King |
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d3e71c1
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They were close to the end of the beginning . . .
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man
chambers
dark-tower
deschain
gunslinger
jake
roland
stephen-king
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Stephen King |
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01129f6
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the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...
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colours
colors
sunlight
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Stephen King |
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943b946
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Mister, we deal in lead.
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Stephen King |
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8805a23
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Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.
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Stephen King |
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db39848
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We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.
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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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cc3c728
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once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual
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Stephen King |
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8181a78
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If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.
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Stephen King |
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7259e65
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Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -"
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Stephen King |
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1a9eae4
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The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.
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sleep
sanity
mind
world
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Stephen King |
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ef77663
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Explanations are such cheap poetry.
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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..
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it
growing-up
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Stephen King |
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de74898
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I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of these connections is horribly, outrageously high... and I still believe that the value received far outweighs the price which must be paid. (From introductory notes.)
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Stephen King |
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9c14c91
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The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.
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Stephen King |
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aca9ecf
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And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.
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Stephen King |