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the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

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Go then, there are other worlds than these.

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They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

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They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

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...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or twice but all night.

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Allie sighed. It was an old yellow sound, like turning pages.

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It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.

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When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the qui...more

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The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe.

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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.― Stephen King, The Shining

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Shall I tell you what sociology teaches us about the human race? I’ll give it to you in a nutshell. Show me a man or woman alone and I’ll show you a s...more

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I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependent upon the intrinsic worth of th...more

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Dreams are a simple psychological emetic, and people who have them are more blessed than cursed

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He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly.

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The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cleaned up. In a hurry.