Quote by Stephen King (about Imagination)

Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.

Stephen King in The Shining

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Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

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Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

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A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

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When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

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Books Reading

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But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

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A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

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Experience Past

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

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Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

Hope

Some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone.

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Freedom Birds

A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it.

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Crime

I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

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You know the funny thing is, on the outside I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.

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Prisons

You're gonna look real funny sucking my dick with no teeth.

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Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

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Hope

I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.

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Freedom

Uncle Sam. Reaching into your shirt and squeezing your tit till it's purple.

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