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“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.”
― Stephen King, The Stand