Top 45 Richard Bachman Quotes
#1. Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
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#2. It just ... it seems hard to say anything that isn't the wrong thing.
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#3. If there is an after, I hope it's not dark. And I hope you can remember. I'd hate to wander around in the dark forever, not knowing who I was or what I was doin' here, or not even knowing that I'd ever had anything different.
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#5. Then you can blame it on your parents,' I said, smiling. 'Won't that be a relief?
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#6. The deal is this. You be the hero. Come down here. Unarmed. Come inside with your hands on your head. I'll let everybody go. Then I'll blow your fucking head off. Sir. How's that for a deal? You buy it?
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#7. If people just took it a day at a time, they'd be a lot happier.
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#8. She had done it. O, amazing grace. The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it. No net. No way back. Amazing.
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#10. Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-hah-hah!
- The Count Sesame Street
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#12. The longer you went without speaking, the harder it gets to break the silence.
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#13. Two years ago. To the best of my recollection, that was about the time I started to lose my mind.
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#14. They got that way, Garraty had noticed. Complete withdrawal from everything and everyone around them. Everything but the road. They stared at the road with a kind of horrid fascination, as if it were a tightrope thay had to walk over an endless, bottomless chasm.
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#15. He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not.
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#16. You can't always understand something just because you did it.
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#17. Crowd was to be pleased. Crowd was to be worshipped and feared. Ultimately, Crowd was to be made sacrifice unto.
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#19. We are going to understand all about the difference between people and pieces of paper in a file, and the difference between doing your job and getting jobbed ...
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#20. How many you or I have outlasted doesn't matter, I think. There comes a time when the will just runs out. Doesn't matter what I think, see?
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#21. July disappeared wherever used months go. Then half of August. Soon summer would be over.
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#22. We'll all be glad to see you die. No one's going to miss you, Gary. Maybe I'll walk behind you and spit on your brains after they blow them all over the road. Maybe I'll do that. Maybe we all will. It
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#23. When everything is at its worst, your mind just throws it all into the wastebasket and goes to Florida for a little while. There is a sudden electric what-the-hell glow as you stand there looking back over your shoulder at the bridge you just burnt down.
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#24. Just go on dancing with me like this forever, Garraty, and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoes on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.
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#25. You're on, Ted," I told him. "Your big chance, boy. Don't blow it. Folks, this kid is going to dance his balls off before your very eyes.
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#26. You'll be given a tape machine which is about the size of a box of popcorn. It weighs six pounds. With it, you'll be given sixty tape clips which are about four inches long. The equipment will fit inside a coat pocket without a bulge. It's a triumph of modern technology.
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#27. You think just knowing about death will keep you from dying?
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#28. He touched McVries's shoulders, setting him straight again. McVries looked up at him sleepily and smiled. No, Ray. It's time to sit down.
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#30. That was Dad's life, and I was the birdshit on his windshield.
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#31. The reason all of this is so horrible," McVries said, "is because it's just trivial. You know? We've sold ourselves and traded our souls on trivialities.
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#32. You were starting to sound a little like a Stephen King novel for a while there,
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#33. None of us really has anything to lose. That makes it easier to give away.
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#34. If you think someone is seriously on the prod for your ass, it keeps you awake.
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#35. The apartment was haunted by the ghost of long-departed cabbage.
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#36. Lunacy is when you can't see the seams where they stitched the world together anymore.
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#37. Blaze himself was pretty sure he himself was going to hell, as were most other people. It was a dirty world, and the longer you lived, the dirtier you got.
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#38. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.
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#39. They're animals, all right. But why are you so sure that makes us human beings?
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#40. He wondered how far his legs would carry him on their own - how long before his brain took over them and began punishing them, making them work past any sane limit, to keep a bullet from crashing into its own bony cradle.
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#41. He was going to make this happen. His feet and his head was set, and when he got that way, he always did what he said he was going to do. It was his pride. The only one he had.
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#42. Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.
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#43. EXPLOSIVE IN MY COAT POCKET - THE VARIETY THEY CALL BLACK IRISH. TWELVE POUNDS IS ENOUGH TO TAKE OUT EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE WITHIN A THIRD OF A MILE AND PROBABLY ENOUGH TO EXPLODE THE JETPORT FUEL STORAGE TANKS. IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS
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#44. All places are the same unless your mind changes. There's no magic place to get your mind right. If you feel like shit, everything you see looks like shit.
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#45. The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.
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