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  • #1
    “There is no god but Road Runner and Chuck Jones is his prophet.”
    ― John Steiner
    tags: humorous
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    “You can take the ape out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the ape.”
    ― John Steiner
    tags: social-commentary
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  • #3
    “Let them know men did this.”
    ― Mads Mikkelsen, Clash of the Titans [2010]
    tags: inspirational
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  • #4
    Carl Sagan
    “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding
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    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
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    Carl Sagan
    “The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: observational
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  • #7
    “Just because all the rats are gone doesn't mean I trust the rattlesnake that got rid of them.”
    ― John Steiner
    tags: humor, social-commentary
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  • #8
    “Anyone who has to take a test to see how smart they are can't be that bright.”
    ― R.W. Haight
    tags: social-commentary
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  • #9
    Stephen King
    “God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: stephen-king
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  • #10
    Stephen King
    “Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
    ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
    tags: dark, jon-jake-chambers, stephen-king, tower
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    Stephen King
    “As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: stephen-king, the-mist
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  • #12
    Stephen King
    “There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.”
    ― Stephen King, Lisey's Story
    tags: death, love, stephen-king
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  • #13
    Stephen King
    “Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
    ― Stephen King, It
    tags: clown, eddie, fear, grownups, horror, it, monster, pennywise, stephen-king
    488 likes

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  • #14
    Stephen King
    “People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.”
    ― Stephen King, Bag of Bones/the Green Mile/the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
    tags: bag-of-bones, stephen-king
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  • #15
    Stephen King
    “He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.”
    ― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
    tags: full-dark-no-stars, hell, horror, stephen-king, thirst
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  • #16
    Stephen King
    “What if I fall?', Tim cried.

    Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.”
    ― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole
    tags: dark-tower, falling, man-in-black, roland, stephen-king
    106 likes

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  • #17
    Stephen King
    “Memory is the basis of every journey.”
    ― Stephen King, Dreamcatcher
    tags: dreamcatcher, journey, memory, stephen-king
    50 likes

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  • #18
    Stephen King
    “Life turns on a dime.”
    ― Stephen King, 11/22/63
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  • #19
    Stephen King
    “When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.”
    ― Stephen King, 11/22/63
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  • #20
    Stephen King
    “It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?”
    ― Stephen King, From a Buick 8
    tags: from-a-buick-8, stephen-king
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  • #21
    Stephen King
    “Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.”
    ― Stephen King, 11/22/63
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    Stephen King
    “Why does she have to be such a...such a..."

    "Go on," I said. "The truth is never cussing, Son."

    "Such a bitch!”
    ― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
    tags: full-dark-no-stars, name-calling, stephen-king, truth
    21 likes



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