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161 " Time's the thief of memory "
― Stephen King , The Gunslinger
162 " Time heals all wounds. "
― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis
163 " In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all. "
― Stephen King , The Wind Through the Keyhole
164 " Time, Eddie had decided during this period, was in large part created by external events. When a lot of interesting shit was happening, time seemed to go by fast. If you got stuck with nothing but the usual boring shit, it slowed down. And when everything stopped happening, time apparently quit altogether. Just packed up and went to Coney Island. Weird but true. "
― Stephen King , Wolves of the Calla
165 " He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands "
― Stephen King , The Running Man
166 " Time takes it all in the end... "
― Stephen King , A Good Marriage
167 " Time passed: the mind rebuilds it's defenses. "
― Stephen King , Christine
168 " I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss. "
― Stephen King
169 " All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of. "
― Stephen King , Full Dark, No Stars
170 " You ought to sue that son of a whore "
― Stephen King , The Dead Zone
171 " What we’ve got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. "
― Stephen King , The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower #3)
172 " Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life. "
173 " Good books don't give up all their secrets at once. "
174 " Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. "
175 " You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you. "
― Stephen King , Night Shift
176 " Without story books is like a person with no soul. "
177 " Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home. "
178 " A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give. "
179 " Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. "
180 " Good books are for consideration after, too. "