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“It means you would do well to think more before you act. To be a man of action may be honorable, but to be a dead man of action profits you nothing.”

Book:The Shadow's Servant

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“Yet, despite the snappy repartee and often-witty scripts, West Wing was a remarkably silly program. Has there ever been a group of real White House staffers as admirable and lovable as the West Wing ensemble, that selfless, high-minded, public-spirited, fundamentally decent pack of . . . political operators? Sorkin’s White House existed in a Bizarro World where the Oval Office is apparently devoid of office politics. Fans of the show never saw the sort of infighting, backstabbing, and jockeying for position that appear in real-world accounts of White House life, like George Reedy’s Twilight of the Presidency and John Dean’s Blind Ambition.”

White House Television Shows The West Wing

Book:The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power

Source: The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.”

Stephen King The Green Mile

Book:Coffey on the Mile

Source: Coffey on the Mile

“What I didn't realize was how many doors the act of writing unlocks, as if my Dad's old fountain pen wasn't really a pen at all, but some strange variety of skeleton key.”

Writing Stephen King Pen The Green Mile

Book:The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“In a way - I know how crazy this will sound, of course I do, but there is no sense in writing something as long as this if you can't say what feels true to your heart.”

Writing Stephen King The Green Mile

Book:The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“Yes sir boss. Like the drink, only not spelled the same.”

The Green Mile

Author:Stephen King

“My sense of time seems to be melting, like a kid's snowman in a January thaw.”

Time Stephen King The Green Mile

Book:The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“...some of it's how he acts like he's King Shit of Turd Mountain, but mostly it's that he's sneaky, and he likes to hurt”

Cruelty Stephen King The Green Mile

Book:The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“I think of John saying that Wharton killed the Detterick twins with their love for eachother, and that it happens every day, all over the world. If it happens, God lets it happen, and when we say "I don't understand," God replies, "I don't care.”

Death Stephen King The Green Mile

Book:Coffey on the Mile

Source: Coffey on the Mile

“Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world...every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head...all the time. Can you understand?”

The Green Mile

Author:Stephen King

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