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“Anger is the most useless emotion,” Henchick intoned, “destructive to the mind and hurtful of the heart.”
“You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails you, and you replace it with rational thought. But there is no love in thought, nothing that lasts in deduction, only death in rationalism.”
“A man named Stephen King. Do you know that name?”
“I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe. And one day while you were doing that, you felt something pushing back.”
“All things serve the Beam,”
Everybody sez it all goes by in the wink of an eye and you say yeah yeah yeah . . . and then it does.
Say true! Sometimes I look in the mirror and say, “You are a grandfather.” And the Steve in the mirror just laughs, because the idea is so ridiculous. The Steve in the mirror knows I’m still a college sophomore, going to classes
One more turn of the path, and then we reach the clearing. Come along with me, will ya not?
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
