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  • January 30th, 2012 11:07pm

    When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routines, ideas, and traditions. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow – you are not understanding yourself.

    — Bruce Lee (via harm0nize3)

  • January 27th, 2012 2:03pm

    Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.

    — Dracula; Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

  • January 26th, 2012 1:08pm

    Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

    — C.S. Lewis (via doubledaybooks)

  • January 24th, 2012 2:21pm

    He is experimenting and doing it well; and if it had not been that we have crossed his path he would be yet – he may yet be if we fail – the father or furtherer of a new order of beings, whose road must lead through Death, not Life.

    — Dr. Abraham Van Helsing; Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

  • January 11th, 2012 6:59am

    If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

    — Stephen King

  • January 8th, 2012 3:42pm

    I come in the name of Steven Deschain, he of Gilead!
    I come in the name of Gabrielle Deschain, she of Gilead!
    I come in the name of Cortland Andrus, he of Gilead!
    I come in the name of Cuthbert Allgood, he of Gilead!
    I come in the name of Alain Johns, he of Gilead!
    I come in the name of Jamie DeCurry, he of Gilead!
    I come in the name of Vannay the Wise, he of Gilead!
    I come in the name of Hax the Cook, he of Gilead!
    I come in the name of David the Hawk, he of Gilead and the sky!
    I come in the name of Susan Delgado, she of Meijis!
    I come in the name of Sheemie Ruiz, he of Meijis!
    I come in the name of Pere Callahan, he of Jerusalem’s Lot, and the roads!
    I come in the name of Ted Brautigan, he of America!
    I come in the name of Dinky Earnshaw, he of America!
    I come in the name of Aunt Talitha, she of River Crossing, and will lay her cross here, as I was bid!
    I come in the name of Stephen King, he of Maine!
    I come in the name of Oy, the brave, he of Midworld!
    I come in the name of Eddie Dean, he of New York!
    I come in the name of Susannah Dean, she of New York!
    I come in the name of Jake Chambers, he of New York, whom I call my own true son!
    I am Roland of Gilead, and I come as myself; you will open to me.

    — Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)