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"Paul Edgecomb: What do you want me to do John? I'll do it. You want me to let you walk out of here and see how far you get? John Coffey: Now why would you want to do a foolish thing like that? Paul Edgecomb: When I die and I stand before God awaiting judgment and he asks me why I let one of HIS miracles die, what am I gonna say, that it was my job?"
"I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know."
"What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane."
"You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify"
"You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens."
"I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes pop out of your head."
"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."
"Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature."
"Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either."
"I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose I had. On some level, unless we're mad, I think most of us know the various voices of our own imaginations. And of our memories, of course. They have voices, too. Ask anyone who has ever lost a limb or a child or a long-cherished dream. Ask anyone who blames himself for a bad decision, usually made in a raw instant (an instant that is most commonly red). Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark."
"Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing."
"The mystery of the universe is not time but size."
"Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink or believe. Me, I don't believe in God. But if i saw him, I would. I wouldn't just go around saying, "Jesus, that was a great special effect." The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing."
"There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired."
"I am in trouble here. This woman is not right."
"and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max."
"You know," Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early light of morning, "I've heard the saying 'That sucks' for years without really being sure of what it meant. Now I think I know."
"Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write."
"It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you."
"All Thing Serve the Beam"