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  • March 18th, 2012 11:00am

    “My Da’ and Cuthbert’s Da’ used to have a rule between them: first the smiles, then the lies. Last comes gunfire.”

    “We’re almost there, aren’t we?” Susannah asked. “Almost to the shooting.”

    Roland nodded. “And the shooting will happen so fast and be over so quick that you’ll wonder what all the planning and palaver was for, when in the end it always comes down to the same five minutes’ worth of blood, pain, and stupidity.”

    — Stephen King – The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla

  • March 16th, 2012 3:08pm

    But there’s another reason: I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when we’re a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition.

    — Carl Sagan – The Writing Life

  • March 8th, 2012 2:02pm

    “Fuck you,” Roland said. He did not raise his voice. He might have told Blaine that a little Way-Gog would indeed be very nice.

    There was a shocked, horrified gasp from the overhead speakers— Little Blaine.

    “WHAT DO YOU SAY?” In its clear disbelief, the voice of Big Blaine had once again become very close to the voice of his unsuspected twin.

    “I said fuck you,” Roland said calmly, “but if that puzzles you, Blaine, I can make it clearer. No. The answer is no.”

    — Stephen King – The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands. 

  • March 1st, 2012 11:32pm

    Right is what all this is about,“ Roland said. "But if you look too long at the small rights, Jake – the ones that lie close at hand – it’s easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off. Things are out of joint – going wrong and getting worse. We see it all around us, but the answers are still ahead. While we were helping the twenty or thirty people left in River Crossing, twenty or thirty thousand more might be suffering or dying somewhere else. And if there is any place in the universe where these things can be set right, it’s at the Dark Tower.”

    — Roland Deschain – (Stephen King) The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands. 

  • February 20th, 2012 1:59am

    Defeat is a state of mind. No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality. To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to greater effort to achieve my goal. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

    — Bruce Lee (via danielismos)