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It's the same corner DEKE just came around. Now an
ice-cream panel truck with jolly balloons and pictures of Fudgsicles and ice
cream cones painted on it comes around the corner. The SOUND of bells tinkling
a tune is coming from the speakers on top of the truck. MY-T TAS-T, the signs
on both sides read.
The red stuff splattered all over the grille and
windshield of the truck is not cherry Kool-Ade. The ice-cream truck has
scrubbed maybe twenty people – we may assume most were unsuspecting kids. I
think we may also assume the truck found most of them My-T Tas-T.
[from “Overdrive” – Screenplay]
© by Stephen King
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In the morning my stomach has settled a little but
my diaphragm is sore from vomiting and my head is throbbing like a mouthful of
infected teeth. My eyes have turned into magnifying glasses; the hideously
bright morning light coming in through the hotel windows is being concentrated
by them and will soon set my brains on fire.
Participating in that day's scheduled activities – a
walk to Times Square, a boat ride to the Statue of Liberty, a climb to the top
of the
[from “On Writing”]
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The town slept.
The cities sleep uneasily, like paranoiacs who spend
their days in fear and their exhausted nights fleeing crooked shadows to that
final hotel room where, as Auden says, it has been waiting all the time under
one naked lightbulb. Their sleep is marred by the rising screams of the
squad-car sirens, by the endless neon, by taxis that cruise restlessly like
yellow wolves. Their sleep is sweating, fearful, yet vital.
But the town sleeps like a stone, like the dead.
[…]
Yet it did not sleep quite so completely as it had,
because on the hill above town the lights shone from the Marsten House, as if
the eye of the dark itself had opened and disclosed a fearful yellow pupil.
[ a deleted scene from “Second Coming”, taken from the Illustrated
Edition of “’
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SCULLY
I was on vacation. Out of my own head for a
few days.
(beat)
How bout you? Did you get a lot done without
me around?
MULDER
Oh, yeah. It's amazing what I can accomplish
without incessant questioning and meddling into everything I do --
As he says this, A PENCIL falls from the sky.
Literally. Falling down into frame and landing on Mulder's desk. And then a
second one. Scully stares at this, then at Mulder, then looking up to:
THE CEILING
Where about 50 pencils are stuck into the
ceiling. CAMERA PANNING BACK DOWN TO MULDER. Reaching for one of the pencils.
MULDER
There's got to be an explanation.
SCULLY
I don't know. Some things are better left
unexplained.
[from "Chinga" (The X-Files 5X10) -
Teleplay]
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True.
If I sort of felt like strangling her all over again, it was nobody’s fault
but my own. Peek not through a keyhole, lest ye be vexed, my dear old
mother used to say. I peeked, I was vexed, end of story. It was her life
now, and what she did in it was her business. My business was to drop it. My
question was whether or not I could. It was harder than snapping your
fingers; even than snapping the fingers of a hand that wasn’t there. |
THE
LIVES OF OTHERS It's
about eavesdropping, but for once not about the people who are being listened
to. This one is about the listener: party hack Gerd Wiesler, brilliantly
played by Ulrich Mühe, who died much too soon. "Peek not at a
knothole, lest ye be vexed," my mother used to tell my brother and me;
the moral of this story is "Listen not at one, lest ye be changed." |
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[from "Duma Key"] |
[from "The Pop of King (75) – Stephen
King's Best of '07: Movies and TV", Entertainment Weekly] |
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46 INT. THE CRUISER, WITH JOE BOB
He's staring, surprised, into the westbound lanes.
They're Army trucks, and they're headed for Arnette -- dozens of them, maybe
hundreds: big brown hulks with their lights on in the daytime.
JOE BOB
God-dang!
He COUGHS NERVOUSLY and grabs his mike. During the
following, the trucks continue to stream by on his left, looking like something
left over from Maximum Overdrive.
[from "The Stand" - Teleplay]
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HOOK is leaning in the doorway with a can of
Nozz-A-La Cola in his hand (this is a standard brand in the show, so someone
needs to work out a logo).
[from "
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210 EXT. LOOKING DOWN THE HIGHWAY
In the f.g. are NICK'S and TOM'S abandoned bikes. As
the truck pulls away, GINA starts singing "Children of the Lord"
(known to the heathen among you as "The Arky-Arky Song," words
available from the screenwriter for a reasonable fee).
[from "The Stand" – Teleplay]
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I can hear my wife as I write this, in the next
room, crying. She thinks I was with another woman last night.
And oh dear God, I think so too.
[from
"Strawberry Spring"]
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THE CAMERA MOVES IN ON ROOM 719. The card on the
door reads MONA KLINGERMAN. In the space provided for ATTENDING PHYSICIAN,
STEGMAN has been CROSSED OUT and the name CLOONEY has been added (a small ER
joke).
[from "
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STU [
You still from
[from "The Stand" – Teleplay]
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Wanna hear my definition of a Golden Age as applies
to x?
No?
Okay, here it is anyway: A Golden Age is a time when
so many things about x are wonderful and unique that x itself is taken for
granted.
And you can quote me, honeychile.
[I just did: from "On the Far Side",
introduction to Gary Larson's "The Far Side Gallery 2"]
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I spent that day knocking out a story called
"Graveyard Shift." I remember being very happy and very absorbed —
having the time of my life, in fact. The story was gruesome, fast, and fun. (It
later became a film which was gruesome and fast, but unfortunately not much
fun.)
[from the new introduction to the 1999 reprint
of "Carrie"]
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For one moment, the upper hallway of the house on |
And then, all at once, it was like she looked
around at me, Andy... I think she saw me. And when she did, I understood why
she was so unhappy: her father'd been at her somehow, and she was tryin to
cover it up. On top of that, she'd all at once realized someone was lookin at
her, that a woman God knows how many miles away but still in the path of the
eclipse -- a woman who'd just killed her husband -- was lookin at her. She spoke to me, although I didn't hear her voice
with my ears; it came from deep in the middle of my head. "Who are
you?" she ast. |
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[from "Gerald's Game"] |
[from "Dolores Claiborne"] |
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I hope Andy is down there.
I hope I can make it across the border.
I hope to see my friend and shake his hand.
I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been
in my dreams.
I hope.
[from "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank
Redemption"]
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STARKEY
[Ed Harris]
Is that Hungarian goulash?
[from "The Stand" – Teleplay]
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All quotes © by Stephen King