Stephen King
Author
"I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life."
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Jake
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Michael Buckley
Author, Educator
"Save the people you love, who cares about the rest of the world? - Uncle Jake"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben roars; tough and screaming, as birch-bark, goes like bullet to its mark; while the solid curse and jeer never balk the waiting ear."
Simone Elkeles
Author
"There are no rules to attraction. Jake is nothing like who I wanted."
Stephen King
Author
"Roland grabbed Jake and hauled him to his feet. “You came!” Jake shouted. “You really came!” “I came, yes. By the grace of the gods and the courage of my friends, I came."
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"I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women."
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"I auditioned for Jake in Progress, and I was nervous because I had a big crush on John Stamos. I was totally thrown off and couldnt remember my lines."
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