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The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand

by Christopher Golden (Goodreads Author)

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“As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no "high-minded orientation," no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

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“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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“Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

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“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”
― George Orwell

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