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John Wright
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I played at the University of Illinois and we were playing Duke at home. Who doesn’t hate Duke? I mean it’s such an elite, wealthy, pompous university, easy to hate and easy to make fun of. I really hated them and their coach had never
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“When I was talking to her in my office, about Church, I got thinking about my mother and how she spun me that old cabbage-leaf story when I asked her where women got babies. I’ve never forgotten that lie. I don’t think children ever forget the lies their parents tell them.”
― Pet Sematary
― Pet Sematary
“Hell of a world we live in, huh? (…) But it could be worse, huh?”
“That’s right,” I said, “or even worse, it could be perfect.”
― The Gernsback Continuum
“That’s right,” I said, “or even worse, it could be perfect.”
― The Gernsback Continuum
“Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
― The Shawshank Redemption
― The Shawshank Redemption
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?”
― Different Seasons: Four Novellas
― Different Seasons: Four Novellas
“He sighed and took another comic book off the stack. Some ridiculous fucking thing called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Ninja Turtles were supposed to be “heroes on a half-shell.” He threw Raphael, Donatello, and their numbfuck buddies across the store and the comic book they inhabited fluttered down in a tent shape on top of a cash register. It was things like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, he thought, that made you believe the world was maybe just as well off destroyed.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
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