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The Ritual
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“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
― The Shining
― The Shining
“The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.”
― The Shining
― The Shining
“We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.”
― The Shining
― The Shining
“He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.”
― The Shining
― The Shining
“Because a real artist must suffer. Because man kills the thing he loves.”
― The Shining
― The Shining
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