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Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wak...more

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If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and round...more

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Bad news should always come after lunch.. first thing in the morning everything left a bruise.

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Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find other...more

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When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

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I suspect that fright, like pain, is one of those things that slip our minds once they have passed. What I do remember is a feeling I'd had before whe...more

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...it was amazing, wasn't it, how bad you could hurt when there was nothing physically wrong.

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Pain is the biggest power of love." That's what Wireman says.

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A hurt body and mind aren’t just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusio...more

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Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

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I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life...It wasn't what I thought it would be at all. It didn't put an end to me as a person. I thi...more

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I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life, he would tell the others. It wasn't what I thought it would be at all. It didn't put an end...more

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For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even cry...more

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...there were those who might have suggested that reality is a highly untrustworthy concept, something perhaps no more solid than a piece of canvas st...more

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They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind.