"And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like."
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"It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's."
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"We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons."
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"When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside."
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"He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times that of his classmates. They had thought him strange, weird, or even suicidal, depending on the escapade in question, but maybe it had been a simple case of mental overdrive-if anything about being in constant mental overdrive was simple. Anyway, it was the sort of thing you got under control after a while-you got it under control or you found outlets for it."
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"I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are."
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"It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for the banks to give back what they were given. There are those in politics, particularly those on the conservative side, who can't get enough of telling people that the wealthy one per cent must not be taxed because doing so kills jobs. The real job-killers are corporate greed and political expediency. It's time for working people in Maine and all across the country to take back the American dream."
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"What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed."
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"Theres a constant struggle going on about how much will be illegal and how much you will be free to take. Can we open the pharmacies? Can we put Valium and Percodan and those sorts of things out on the shelves? I wouldn't take it. I don't know."
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"Above all else, be consistent."
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"Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness."
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"My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people."
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"When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story."
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"Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything."
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"You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you."
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"The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever, like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever."
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"There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world."
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"Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest."
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"Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started."
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"Some things were better lost than found."
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