Everyone is always just one bad decision away from insanity at any given time.
...Should I stick my fingers into the fan...or leave the room right now?
...Should I run the blade of this razor across my tongue!? Or just finish shaving and walk away from the sink!?
--Jim Carrey
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"Death had to take him in his sleep, because had he been awake, there would have been a fight." -- An actual quote about Roosevelt (I don't recall by whom)
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Jake stood on the corner of Second and Forty-sixth, looking at a board fence about five feet high. Tears streaming down his cheeks. From the darkness beyond the fence came a strong harmonic humming. The sound of many voices, all singing together. Singing one vast open note. 'Here is yes,' the voices said. 'Here is you may, here is the good turn, the fortunate meeting, the fever that broke just before dawn and left your blood calm. Here is the wish that came true and the understanding eye. Here is the kindness you were given and thus learned to pass on. Here is the sanity and clarity you thought were lost. Here, everything is all right.'
--Stephen King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
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There is a sense-inarticulate but very much there-that things have gone amiss this season. It is the closing of the year; it is also the closing of the peace. For it is here, in the sleepy Out-World Barony of Mejis, that Mid-World's last great conflict will shortly begin; it is from here that the blood will begin to flow. In two years, no more, the world as it has been will be swept away. It starts here. From its field of roses the Dark Tower cries out in its beast's voice. Time is a face on the water.
--The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, Stephen King.
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"My mother sometimes used to say, 'All the difference in the world is between work and want,' and I believe that to my very soul. I believe it is better to plow deep than wide. This is my place, and I love it."
Stephen King's "The Reach"
"'These are things made for thinking on slowly,' he would have told the children if he had known how. 'Things to be thought on at length, while the hands do their work and the coffee sits in a solid china mug nearby. They are questions of Reach maybe: Do the dead sing? And do they love the living?'"
Stephen King's "The Reach"
10 years
