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The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2)

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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Steve said: " More engaging than The Gunslinger, with a faster pace and fewer allegorical trappings. Reading this made me decide to stick with the series as my vacation read. "

Jun 06, 2011 08:27AM · see review

“Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.
Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

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“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
― William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

tags: poetry

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“The Occidental snobbery which is invading us, the gunboats, rapid-fire guns, long-range rifles, explosives... what else? Everything which makes death collective, administrative and bureaucratic - all the filth of your progress, in fact - is destroying, little by little, our beautiful traditions of the past. ”
― Octave Mirbeau

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“Play is experimenting with chance.”
― Novalis

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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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