Stephen King, The Dark Tower
"All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one..."
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"All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one..."
Stephen King, The Dark Tower
"How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's"If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one"Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "Touché. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story..."
Stephen King, The Dark Tower
"The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic."
Stephen King, The Dark Tower
"My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.'I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.'Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed."
Stephen King, The Dark Tower
"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."
Stephen King, The Dark Tower
"Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do."
Stephen King, The Dark Tower
"and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure."
Stephen King, The Dark Tower
"Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can."
Stephen King, The Dark Tower
"Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet..."
Stephen King, The Dark Tower
"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."
Stephen King, The Dark Tower
"Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed."
Stephen King, The Dark Tower
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