the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.
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Go then, there are other worlds than these.
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A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and it seemed to me they were half embarrassed ...
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A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.
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They were close to the end of the beginning . . .
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They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.
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Once again there was the desert, and that only.
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...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or twice but all night.
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The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go
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There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail...
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Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
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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 mo...
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He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.
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In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
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Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.
