“Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
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