Quotes from Doctor Sleep

“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“Death was no less a miracle than birth.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“A life without love is like a tree without fruit.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“No great thing is created suddenly.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“She thought that things could not get worse . . . but they always can, and often do.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“Sometimes you had to know. Sometimes you had to see.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“The world's just a hospice with fresh air.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word:

REDRUM”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“You didn't get sober to be stupid, Danny. Keep it in mind the next time you start listening to that itty-bitty shitty committee inside your head.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“Dan thought of another AA aphorism: We're powerless over people, places, and things. Like most alkie nuggets, it was seventy percent true and thirty percent rah-rah bullshit.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“I’m not scared of hell. I lived a decent life, and I don’t think there is such a place, anyway. I’m scared there’s nothing.” He struggled for breath. A pearl of blood was swelling in the corner of his right eye. “There was nothing before, we all know that, so doesn’t it stand to reason that there’s nothing after?” “But there is.” Dan wiped Charlie’s face with the damp cloth. “We never really end, Charlie. I don’t know how that can be, or what it means, I only know that it is.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“We're only as sick as our secrets.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“We’re all dying. The world’s just a hospice with fresh air.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

“Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep

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“[There is] a widespread approach to ideas which Objectivism repudiates altogether: agnosticism. I mean this term in a sense which applies to the question of God, but to many other issues also, such as extra-sensory perception or the claim that the stars influence man’s destiny. In regard to all such claims, the agnostic is the type who says, “I can’t prove these claims are true, but you can’t prove they are false, so the only proper conclusion is: I don’t know; no one knows; no one can know one way or the other.”

The agnostic viewpoint poses as fair, impartial, and balanced. See how many fallacies you can find in it. Here are a few obvious ones: First, the agnostic allows the arbitrary into the realm of human cognition. He treats arbitrary claims as ideas proper to consider, discuss, evaluate—and then he regretfully says, “I don’t know,” instead of dismissing the arbitrary out of hand. Second, the onus-of-proof issue: the agnostic demands proof of a negative in a context where there is no evidence for the positive. “It’s up to you,” he says, “to prove that the fourth moon of Jupiter did not cause your sex life and that it was not a result of your previous incarnation as the Pharaoh of Egypt.” Third, the agnostic says, “Maybe these things will one day be proved.” In other words, he asserts possibilities or hypotheses with no jot of evidential basis.

The agnostic miscalculates. He thinks he is avoiding any position that will antagonize anybody. In fact, he is taking a position which is much more irrational than that of a man who takes a definite but mistaken stand on a given issue, because the agnostic treats arbitrary claims as meriting cognitive consideration and epistemological respect. He treats the arbitrary as on a par with the rational and evidentially supported. So he is the ultimate epistemological egalitarian: he equates the groundless and the proved. As such, he is an epistemological destroyer. The agnostic thinks that he is not taking any stand at all and therefore that he is safe, secure, invulnerable to attack. The fact is that his view is one of the falsest—and most cowardly—stands there can be.”
― Leonard Peikoff, quote from Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

“Thirty- eight years old and he was finished. He sipped at the coffee and remembered where he had gone wrong -- or right. He'd simply gotten tired -- of the insurance game, of the small offices and high glass partitions, the clients; he'd simply gotten tired of cheating on his wife, of squeezing secretaries in the elevator and in the halls;
he'd gotten tired of Christmas parties and New Year's parties and birthdays, and payments on new cars and furniture payments -- light, gas, water -- the whole bleeding complex of necessities.
He'd gotten tired and quit, that's all. The divorce came soon enough and the drinking came soon enough, and suddenly he was out of it. He had nothing, and he found out that having nothing was difficult too. It was another type of burden. If only there were some gentler road in between. It seemed a man only had two choices -- get in on the hustle or be a bum.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from South of No North

“I believe your trouble, which is a congestion, has come from having things stored away. Congestion of things causes congestion in the body.”
― quote from The Game Of Life How To Play It

“In the history of the world there have been lots of onces and lots of times, and every time has had a once upon it.”
― N.D. Wilson, quote from Leepike Ridge

“They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.”
― Richard Hofstadter, quote from The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It

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