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He felt as he always did when he finished a book — queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity.

— Stephen King Misery (1987)

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I don't think time matters much if you're a Breaker.

Hearts in Atlantis (1999)

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

Christine (1983)

Even if you leave this room, you can never leave this room!

Everything's Eventual (2002)

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.

Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on, I think, but in little towns the makeup tends to be thin.

Bag of Bones (1998)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

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