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“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“There's precious little reform in the human race.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“The technological society has walked off the court, so to speak, but they've left all the basketballs behind. Someone will come along who remembers the game and teach it to the rest again.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“When asked, “How do you write?” I invariably answer, “One word at a time,” and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That’s all. One stone at a time. But I’ve read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“In his heart, hope—that indestructible weed of the human heart—had begun to bloom again.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Love didn’t grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn’t grow very well in a place where it was always dark.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Thank God for tunnel vision. Thank God for selective perception. Because without it, we might as well all be in a Lovecraft story.”
― Stephen King, The Stand