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The Dark Tower

Stephen King

The Dark Tower is a series of eight books and one short story written by American author Stephen King that incorporate themes from multiple genres, including dark fantasy, science fantasy, horror, and Western. It describes a "gunslinger" and his quest toward a tower, the nature of which is both physical and metaphorical. The series, and its use of the Dark Tower, expands upon Stephen King's multiverse and in doing so, links together many of his other novels.

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“The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high… but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.”

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“and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.”

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“A coward judges all he sees by what he is.”

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“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”

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“Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.”

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“I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.”

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“As for the end of the universe…I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?”

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“What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.”

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“The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?"
Yes."
My Imagination."
I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself."
Then you have a small imagination."
Roland and Eddie”

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“You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.”

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“All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one…”

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“Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?”

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“It'll be your damnation, boy. You'll wear out a hundred pairs of boots on your way to hell.”

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“never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.”

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“Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because theare funny but because your ownis funny.”

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“He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.”

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“Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.”

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