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We assign a moment to decision, to dignify the process as a timely result of rational and conscious thought. But decisions are made of kneaded feelings; they are more often a lump than a sum.
Thomas Harris, Hannibal
Now that ceaseless exposure has calloused us to the lewd and the vulgar, it is instructive to see what still seems wicked to us. What still slaps the clammy flab of our submissive consciousness hard enough to get our attention?
Thomas Harris, Hannibal
You must understand that when you’re writing a novel you are not making anything up. It’s all there and you just have to find it.
Thomas Harris
There’s an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition.
Stephen King
Pity was not love, Barbie reflected… but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.
Stephen King, Under The Dome
… no amount of after-the-fact sorrow could ever atone for joy taken in destruction, whether it was burning ants or shooting prisoners.
Stephen King, Under The Dome
God turned out to be a bunch of little kids playing Interstellar X-Box. Isn’t that funny?
Stephen King, Under The Dome
In a Spielberg movie, it’s the smart kid who’d come up with the last-minute solution, isn’t that right?
Stephen King, Under The Dome
He began with a question everybody asks when calling a cell phone. “Where are you?”
Stephen King, Under The Dome
If you don’t control your temper, your temper will control you.
Stephen King, Under The Dome