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This inhuman place makes human monsters. (Stephen King)
But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don't think it's in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart. View quote
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The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants. View quote
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I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. View quote
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Kids, the fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. View quote
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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. View quote
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Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret. View quote
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Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones. View quote
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She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time. View quote
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He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to. View quote
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No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside. (Stephen King)
Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. View quote
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There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves. View quote
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I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. View quote
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Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life. View quote
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Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire. View quote
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We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long. View quote
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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost. View quote
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(opening lines) The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain. View quote
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When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights. View quote
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The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture. (Stephen King)
Has it ever occurred to you...that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming? View quote
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If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die. View quote
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As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge that he would not write as well as he wanted to write. As always the terror of not being able to finish, of accelerating into a brick wall. As always, the marvelous joyful nervy feeling of journey begun. View quote
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Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family. View quote
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