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Valerie Tripp (valtripp@ix.netcom.com)
Sat, 14 Oct 1995 08:45:14 -0700

Stephen King on an understanding ear
Taken from Different Seasons, The Body, Page 289

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the
things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink
things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more
than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that,
isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your
secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would
love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly
only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what
you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you
almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think.
When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for
want of an understanding ear.