The Shining Quotes

The Shining Quotes

"A stupid man is more prone to cabin fever just as he's more prone to shoot someone over a card game or commit a spur-of-the-moment robbery. He gets bored. When the snow comes and there's nothing to do but watch TV or play solitaire and cheat when he can't get all the aces out. Nothing to do but bitch at his wife and nag at the kids and drink." (Jack Torrance, "Job Interview," p. 13)

"Your daddy . . . sometimes he does things he's sorry for later. Sometimes he doesn't think the way he should. That doesn't happen very often, but sometimes it does." (Wendy Torrance, "Boulder," p. 19)

"'Any big hotels have got scandals,' he said. 'Just like every big hotel has got a ghost. Why? Hell, people come and go."' (Watson, "Watson," p. 35)

"It was the place he had seen in the midst of the blizzard,...
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