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By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.

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Stephen King
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.
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The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.
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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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and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max.
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You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives
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I do not aim with my hand he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.
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The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker
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I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it.
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It's not the pain I'm afraid of I know about the pain. What I'm afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.
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I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.
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The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons.
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Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.
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God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.
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What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.
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I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
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Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. 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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You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.
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