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Book cover for Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4)
So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for ...more
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Stephen  King
“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
Stephen King

William Peter Blatty
“There it lies, I think, Damien … possession; not in wars, as some tend to believe; not so much; and very rarely in extraordinary interventions such as here … this girl … this poor child. No, I tend to see possession most often in the little things, Damien: in the senseless, petty spites and misunderstandings; the cruel and cutting word that leaps unbidden to the tongue between friends. Between lovers. Between husbands and wives. Enough of these and we have no need of Satan to manage our wars; these we manage for ourselves … for ourselves.”
William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

John Steinbeck
“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Anthony Burgess
“There comes a time, however, when violence is seen as juvenile and boring. It is the repartee of the stupid and ignorant.”
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

Gregory Maguire
“Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.”
Gregory Maguire

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