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“...it was more like bleeding than crying.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“...it was amazing, wasn't it, how bad you could hurt when there was nothing physically wrong.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time would do those things, and time would do an imperfect job.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“The two of them had discovered it was all right to open the closets...as long as you didn't poke too far back in them. Because things might still be lurking there, ready to bite.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“Maybe he was as mad as he said he was, but she could see only a species of miserable fright. Suddenly, like the thud of a boxing glove on her mouth, she saw how close to the edge of everything he was. The agency was tottering, that was bad enough, and now, on top of that, like a grisly dessert following a putrid main course, his marriage was tottering too. She felt a rush of warmth for him, for this man she had sometimes hated and had, for the last three hours at least, feared. A kind of epiphany filled her. Most of all, she hoped he would always think he had been as mad as hell, and not . . . not the way his face said he felt.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“surely they had passed the worst. All the luck had been against them, but sooner or later even the worst luck changes.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“He was a Saint Bernard in his prime, five years old, nearly two hundred pounds in weight, and now, on the morning of June 16, 1980, he was pre-rabid.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“It made him feel creepy. It made him feel outraged. It made him feel infuriated.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“A woman doesn't necessarily mind being looked at. It's being mentally undressed that makes you nervous.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“What is an obsession? It is a form of programming that has gotten completely out of hand. Religious fanatics are a prime example, as are those people who become enveloped in a political concept. Most of man’s progress has come about as a result of obsessions. The Wright brothers were not just tinkerers with an idea; their idea swallowed them up. Most leaders are obsessed with power or possessed by egos so large their only concern is their place in history. I have known writers obsessed with a single subject. Like Bobby Fischer and chess, anything and everything outside their subject seems meaningless. Any art form—music, painting, dance—is done best by those who are completely possessed by it. Such possession often borders on madness. This world would be a sorry place without such madmen.”
― John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

“The standard definition of God, “God is light,” is just a simple way of saying that God is energy. Electromagnetic energy. He is not a He but an It; a field of energy that permeates the entire universe and, perhaps, feeds off the energy generated by its component parts.”
― John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

“Hell was a translation of sheol, which meant “invisible world” or “the land of the dead.”
― John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

“Knowledge of the earth’s magnetic fields of force may have been universal in ancient times and considered so important to the human condition that men spent years of their lives in hard labor charting those fields and erecting huge monuments along them.”
― John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

“If you had dared to suggest one hundred years ago that God and the devil were in cahoots, you would he invited to attend a barbecue in the public square, and you would be the barbecuee. But today it is apparent that the same force that answers some prayers also causes it to rain anchovies and is behind everything from sea serpents to flying saucers. It distorts our reality whimsically, perhaps out of boredom, or perhaps because it is a little crazy. God may be a crackpot.”
― John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

“Watching Paris is Burning, I began to think that the many yuppie-looking, straight -acting, pushy, predominantly white folks in the audience were there because the film in no way interrogates “whiteness.” These folks left the film saying it was “amazing,” “marvellous,” incredibly funny,” worthy of statements like, “Didn’t you just love it?” And no, I didn’t love it. For in many ways the film was a graphic documentary portrait of the way in which colonized black people (in this case black gay brothers, some of whom were drag queens) worship at the throne of whiteness, even when such worship demands that we live in perpetual self-hate, steal, go hungry, and even die in its pursuit. The "we" evoked here is all of us, black people/people of color, who are daily bombarded by a powerful colonizing whiteness that seduces us away from ourselves, that negates that there is beauty to be found in any form of blackness that is not imitation whiteness.”
― bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation

“There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.”
― Martin Scorsese

“No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.”
― Martin Scorsese

“The happier ending is Twin Peaks is still out there. Waiting, watchful, alive. Haunted, full of shivers and delights, a candle glimpsed in a log cabin window, while passing through a few and darkening wood.
Some dreams survive.”
― Mark Frost, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“I wonder if life is still something I can make up.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“I have such an anger and an urge to charge at the sky, to call the wind a liar for never showing itself. An urge to scream at the two who allowed my birth. Cries for help to anyone who will hear them. To scream into the street that there is a lack of miracles in Mother Nature herself. Her divinity is a lie. In”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“I wanted to be a tree so that I could listen for trouble in the woods.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer