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Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.

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A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

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The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed

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The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu...more

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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

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To do otherwise with a 'prentice was to ask for a second, less playful bite. And who would be to blame for that? Who but the teacher? For was he not t...more

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Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street. A teenage boy na...more

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And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

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...so I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or lat...more

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Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

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And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

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Quiet people have the loudest minds.

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If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

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You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?