Chapter Fifty One: Woke, Asleep, Thoughts

The most important things in life are the hardest

things to say. They are the things you get

ashamed of because words diminish your

feelings -- words shrink things that seem

timeless when they are in your head to no

more than living size when they are brought out.

Stephen King

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We don't love each other; we love the idea we

have eack other. Very few humans understand

this or can bear to contemplate it.

They have blind faith in their own powers of

creation. All love, ultimately, is self-love.

Robert Galbraith

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I have to accept my role. I will never kill

myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint

beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that.

I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.

Maurice Sendak

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You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself in 

any direction you choose.

You're on your own,

and you know what you know.

And you are the guy who'll

decide where to go.

Dr. Seuss

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We can embrace love: it's not too late.

Why do we sleep, instead with hate?

Belief requires no suspension

to see that Hell is our invention.

Dean Koontz

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Most fears are basic: fear of the dark,

fear of going down in the basement,

fear of weird sounds,

fear that somebody is waiting for you

in your closet.

Those kimds of things stay with you

no matter what age.

R.L. Stine

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I have saddled myself with the burdens

of innocent people rotting away in prison

while rapists and murderers roam free.

John Grisham

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I'm a very good storyteller;

I have a lot of compassion for people.

That's very useful for a novelist.

James Patterson

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Books need to have their spines cracked,

their covers opened, and their pages ruffled

for them to come alive. 

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

Chris Grabenstein

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It's a curious thing, the death of a loved one.

We all know that our time in this world is

limited, and that eventually all of us will end up

underneath some sheet, never to wake up.

And yet it is always a surprise when it happens

to someone we know. It is like walking up

the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and

thinking there is one more stair than there is.

Your foot falls down, through the air,

and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise

as you try and readjust

the way you thought of things.

Lemony Snicket

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