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“Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.” (The Gunslinger Quotes)
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“He fled the light and the knowledge the light implied, and so came back to himself. Even so do the rest of us; even so the best of us.”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially–not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake.”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“In the end we are reduced to saying It seemed like a good idea at the time.”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“It was strange how some of childhood’s words and ways fell at the wayside and were left behind, while others clamped tight and rode for life, growing the heavier to carry as time passed.”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“Let the word and the legend go before you. There are those who will carry both. Fools, perchance. Let the word go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver, he thought. The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“The mystery of the universe is not time but size.”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“Their faces were zealously blank, their eyes filled with bland fire.”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“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, for the Tower.”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“Why’ is a crooked letter and can’t be made straight.”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
“You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.”
Stephen King
The Gunslinger
