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“If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting--only the deeply personal and familiar.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.”
― ’Salem’s Lot
― ’Salem’s Lot
“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”
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“I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are one.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
“That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
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