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“Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest conclusions to things is one impossibility.
If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and rounded, as the chick must see the egg from the inside. And if you should peck through the shell, what great and torrential light might shine through your hole at the end of space? Might you look through and discover our entire universe is but part of one atom on a blade of grass? Might you be forced to think that by burning a twig you incinerate an eternity of entities? That existence rises not to one infinite but to an infinity of them?”
― The Gunslinger
If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and rounded, as the chick must see the egg from the inside. And if you should peck through the shell, what great and torrential light might shine through your hole at the end of space? Might you look through and discover our entire universe is but part of one atom on a blade of grass? Might you be forced to think that by burning a twig you incinerate an eternity of entities? That existence rises not to one infinite but to an infinity of them?”
― The Gunslinger
“The stars were as indifferent to this as they were to wars, crucifixions, resurrections. This also would have pleased him.”
― The Gunslinger
― The Gunslinger
“The mind-reaction was beginning to settle in, slowing down his chain of thought by seeming to increase the connotations of every idea and every bit of sensory input.”
― The Gunslinger
― The Gunslinger
“My approach to revision hasn't changed much over the years. I know there are writers who do it as they go along, but my method of attack has always been to plunge in and go as fast as I can, keeping the edge of my narrative blade as sharp as possible by constant use, and trying to outrun the novelist's most insidious enemy, which is doubt.”
― The Gunslinger
― The Gunslinger
“I ought to kill you. You need killing.’ His hands had dropped to the worn butts of his guns. ‘Those do not open doors, gunslinger; those only close them forever.”
― The Gunslinger
― The Gunslinger
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