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Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

— Stephen King The Dead Zone (1979)

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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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