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Stephen King explores how men face truth as rivals or equals, and how doing the dirty job with a smile can earn trust. He shows men balancing anger to feel brave and confronting crossroads where choices feel like endings. The verses mix humor with the weight of building and breaking things.

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Busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.

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A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures...

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It's up to men to build things ... it's up to God to blow them down.

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“Although love is a dangerous word when it comes from men.”

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What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.

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A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

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When facts speak, the wise man listens.

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“Men. There seemed to be no escape from them.”

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In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

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Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round…

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...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.

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Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?

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“Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any…

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I've put men to death-men with supposedly immortal souls-that looked dumber than that mouse

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City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

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A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

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I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought…

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Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can…

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He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead--black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs…

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I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't…

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You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the…

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Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to…

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For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd…

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Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men…

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When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that…

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A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture…

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I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the…

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Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there…

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For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man…

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He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He…

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Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy…

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What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't…

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Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody

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the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

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because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

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Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

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The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.

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A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

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The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

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A man who lies about beer makes enemies.

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“God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one…

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“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the…

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“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”