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This Fleshy Side of the Bone

by John Langan

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The Return: The Dumarest Saga Book 32 by E.C. Tubb

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“Do you like what you see?” Her voice was rich with an inviting softness, the slight huskiness bearing musical overtones. One different to that she had used before. “Do I please you?” “You’re an actress.” “All women are that.” “But few as ...more

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“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.”
― J.G. Ballard

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“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

tags: dark, jon-jake-chambers, stephen-king, tower

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“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

tags: bibliotherapy, books, escape, good-habits, life, pleasure, reading, refuge

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“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

tags: dark-tower, horror

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“Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.”
― Ken Kesey

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