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  • 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)

  • February 17th, 2012 7:21pm

    Well, that one in the center: he had a flap holster and he was in no itchin’ hurry. And the one second from the left: he had scared eyes, he wasn’t gonna do nothin’. But that one on the far left: he had crazy eyes. Figured him to make the first move.

    — Josey Wales (The Outlaw Josey Wales)

  • February 16th, 2012 8:31pm

    That’s right. Ka.” Roland walked over to the kiosk and passed a hand along the yellow and black stripes which ran down its front. “We have found one of the twelve portals which ring the edge of the world . . . one of the six paths to the Dark Tower.“

    “And that is also ka.”

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

  • February 15th, 2012 12:14am

    Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness, the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.

    — Madeleine L’Engle – A Wrinkle In Time.

  • February 14th, 2012 1:17pm

    There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes – die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.

    — Edgar Allan Poe – The Man Of The Crowd.

  • February 13th, 2012 11:58pm

    Show me a man or a woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll invent the charming thing we call ‘society’. Give me four and they’ll build a pyramid. Give me five and they’ll make one an outcast. Give me six and they’ll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they’ll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

    — Stephen King – The Stand.

  • February 9th, 2012 2:05pm

    True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring – once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome…except, of course, to those who the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seem to deepen and brighten around them.

    — Stephen King – The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass

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