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The Stand quotes

Stephen King

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“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.” Stephen King, The Stand
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just ... come out the other side. Or you don’t.” Stephen King, The Stand
“If we don’t have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.” Stephen King, The Stand
“love is what moves the world, I’ve always thought.. it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down... bring them low... and make them crawl...” Stephen King, The Stand
“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.” Stephen King, The Stand
“That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.” Stephen King, The Stand
“He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him, making him smile.” Stephen King, The Stand
“I think that in really good stories, the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts.” Stephen King, The Stand
“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... or change.” Stephen King, The Stand
“Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.” Stephen King, The Stand
“you couldn’t not like someone who liked the guitar.” Stephen King, The Stand
“When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'One word at a time,' and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time,...” Stephen King, The Stand
“Love didn’t grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn’t grow very well in a place where it was always dark.” Stephen King, The Stand
“a person can’t change all at once.” Stephen King, The Stand
“Sometimes . . . real love is silent as well as blind.” Stephen King, The Stand
“She couldn’t be on his wavelength all the time. That’s all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.” Stephen King, The Stand
“people who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.” Stephen King, The Stand

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