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If you want to play, you gotta pay. (Stephen King)
In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wireman says. View quote
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The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited. View quote
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Grammar is... the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking. View quote
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Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love? View quote
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But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love. View quote
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Talk had faded with the daylight. The silence that set in was oppressive. The encroaching dark, the groundmist collecting into small, curdled pools...for the first time it seemed perfectly real and totally unnatural, and he wanted either Jan or his mother, some woman, and he wondered what in the hell he was doing and how he ever could have gotten involved. He could not even kid himself that everything had not been up front, because it had been. And he hadn't even done it alone. There were currently ninety-five other fools in this parade. View quote
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Love isn't soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close. View quote
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Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor. View quote
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Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions. View quote
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Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too. (Stephen King)
I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids. View quote
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A life without love is like a tree without fruit. View quote
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It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again. View quote
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Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once. View quote
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As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion? View quote
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Do you drink?" "Of course, I just said I was a writer. View quote
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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad. View quote
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No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart. View quote
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And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend. View quote
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and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure. (Stephen King)
We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create. View quote
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And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity. View quote
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The most important things are the hardest to say. View quote
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It's hard to let go. Even when what you're holding onto is full of thorns, it's hard to let go. Maybe especially then. View quote
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