Stephen King - The Stand (1978)

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She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.

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Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear

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No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.

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The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

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When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."

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I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me.

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There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

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Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.

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He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.

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Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.

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In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

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Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.

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You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

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He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

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There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.

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There's always a choice. That's God's way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There's no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.

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Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.

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Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.

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