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“Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
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