The Shining is about the metaphysical events that develop after writer Jack Torrance takes care of the Overlook Hotel, which is closed during the winter season, and moves to the hotel with his family.
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1. “Have you ever had a single moment’s thought about my responsibilities? Have you ever thought, for a single solitary moment about my responsibilities to my employers? Has it ever occurred to you that I have agreed to look after the Overlook Hotel until May the first. Does it matter to you at all that the owners have placed their complete confidence and ‘trust’ in me, and that I have signed a letter of agreement, a ‘contract,’ in which I have accepted that responsibility?” -Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
2.”Don’t worry, Mom. I know all about cannibalism. I saw it on TV.” –Danny Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
3.”Perhaps they need a good talking to if you don’t mind my saying so. Perhaps a bit more. My girls, sir, they didn’t care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of matches and tried to burn it down. But I ‘corrected’ them sir. And when my wife tried to prevent me from doing my duty, I ‘corrected’ her.” -Mr.Grady, ‘The Shining’.
4.”It’s just like pictures in a book, it isn’t real.”-Danny Torrance as “Tony”, ‘The Shining’.
5.”Your son has quite an extraordinary talent. I don’t think you realize how extraordinary it is.” -Delbert Grady,
6.”Some places are like people: some shine and some don’t.” –Dick Hallorann, ‘The Shining’.
7.”Construction started in 1907. It was finished in 1909. The site is supposed to be located on an Indian burial ground, and I believe they actually had to repel a few Indian attacks as they were building it.” -Stuart Ullman, ‘The Shining’.
8.”Hello Danny. Come and play with us. Come and play with us, Danny. Forever…and ever…and ever.” -Grady twins, ‘The Shining’.
9.”They were a party of settlers in covered-wagon times. They got snowbound one winter in the mountains. They had to resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.” -Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
10.” Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I’m not gonna hurt ya. You didn’t let me finish my sentence. I said I’m not gonna hurt ya. I’m just going to bash your brains in.” -Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
11.”I like you, Lloyd. I always liked you. You were always the best of them. Best goddamned bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine. Or Portland, Oregon, for that matter.” -Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
12.”Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon, and all the irreparable harm it has caused me.” -Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
13.”Hi, Lloyd. Little slow tonight, isn’t it? HA-HA-HA-HA!” -Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
14.”Little pigs, little pigs, let me come in. Not by the hair of your chiny-chin-chin? Well then I’ll huff and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow your house in.” –Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
15. [typed] “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” -Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
16.”God, I’d give anything for a drink. I’d give my goddamned soul for just a glass of beer.” -Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
17.” I dreamed that I, that I killed you and Danny. But I didn’t just kill ya. I cut you up in little pieces. Oh my God. I must be losing my mind.” -Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
18.”Now, we’re going to make a new rule. When you come in here and you hear me typing …” -Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
19. “Come play with us, Danny.” — Grady Twins, ‘The Shining’.
20. “Forever… and ever… and ever.” — Grady Twins, ‘The Shining’.
21. “Redrum.” — Danny Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
22. “Here’s Johnny!” — Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
23. “I don’t suppose they told you anything in Denver about the tragedy we had in the Winter of nineteen seventy.” — Ullman, ‘The Shining’.
24. “Wendy, I’m home.” — Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
25. “Mr. Torrance, I see you can hardly have taken care of the business we discussed.” — Grady, ‘The Shining’.
26. “You got a biiiig surprise coming to you. You’re not going anywhere. Go check out the Snow Cat and the radio and you’ll see what I mean. Go check it out.” — Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
27. “Danny’s not here Mrs. Torrance. Danny has gone away.” — Danny Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
28. “Little Pigs, little pigs, let me come in. Not by the hair on your chinny- chin chin? Then I’ll huff… and I’ll Puff.. and I’ll blow your house in.” — Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
29. “You son of a bitch! You did this to him, didn’t you!? How could you!? How could you!?” — Wendy Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
30. “Come out, come out, where ever you are.” — Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
31. “My predecessor in this job left a man named Charles Grady as the Winter caretaker. And he came up here with his wife and two little girls, I think were eight and ten. And he had a good employment record, good references, and from what I’ve been told he seemed like a completely normal individual. But at some point during the winter, he must have suffered some kind of a complete mental breakdown. He ran a muck and killed his family with an axe. Stacked them neatly in one of the rooms in the West wing and then he, he put both barrels of a shotgun in his mouth.” — Ullman, ‘The Shining’.
32. Lloyd: “What will you be drinking, sir?”
Jack Torrance: “Hair of the dog that bit me, Lloyd.” –‘The Shining’.
33. “Do you have the slightest idea what a moral and ethical principle is? Do you?” — Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
34. “Your son has a very great talent. I don’t think you are aware of how great it is. That he is attempting to use that very talent against your will.” — Grady, ‘The Shining’.
35. Jack Torrance: “Mr. Grady, You WERE the caretaker here.”
Grady: “I’m sorry to differ with you sir, but YOU are the caretaker. You’ve always been the caretaker. I should know sir, I’ve always been here.” –‘The Shining’.
36. “How do you like it?” — Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
37. “It’s amazing how fast you get used to such a big place. I tell you, when we first came up here I thought it was kind of scary.” — Wendy Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
38. Nurse: “Who’s Tony?”
Danny Torrance: “He’s the little boy that lives in his mouth.” –‘The Shining’.
39. “A momentary loss of muscular coordination. A few extra footpounds of energy per second, per second.” — Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
40. “White man’s burden, Lloyd, my man, white man’s burden.” — Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
41. “I’m awfully glad you asked me that, Lloyd. Because I just happen to have to twentys and two tens right here in my wallet. And I was afraif there were gonna be there until net April. So, here’s what: You slip me a bottle of bourbon, a cool glass and some ice. You can do that, can’t you, Lloyd? You’re not too busy, are you?” — Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
42. “God, I’d give anything for a drink. I’d give my god-damned soul for just a glass of beer.” — Jack Torrance, ‘The Shining’.
43. “How’d you like some ice cream, doc?” — Dick Hallorann, ‘The Shining’.
44.”Danny Torrance: Redrum… redrum… redrum… redrum… redrum… redrum… (picks up butcher knife) redrum… redrum… redrum… redrum… redrum… redrum… (picks up lipstick) redrum… redrum… redrum… redrum… redrum… redrum… (writes “REDRUM” on door, starts yelling) REDRUM! REDRUM! REDRUM! REDRUM! REDRUM! REDRUM! REDRUM!
Torrance Wendy: Danny! Danny! Stop it! (gasps as she sees the word “MURDER” on the door in the mirror, then screams as Jack plunges his axe through another door).” –Danny Torrance and Wendy, ‘The Shining’.
45.”Jack Torrance: Mr. Grady. You were the caretaker here. I recognize ya. I saw your picture in the newspapers. You, uh, chopped your wife and daughters up into little bits. And then you blew your brains out.”
Mr. Grady: That’s strange, sir. I don’t have any recollection of that at all.” -Jack Torrance and Mr. Grady, ‘The Shining’.
46.”Jack Torrance: Wendy?
Wendy Torrance: Yes?
Jack Torrance: You got a big surprise coming to you. You’re not going anywhere! Go check out the Snow Cat and the radio and you’ll see what I mean. Go check it out. GO! Go check it out! Go check it out!” –Danny Torrance and Wendy, ‘The Shining’.
47.”Jack Torrance: I’m not gonna hurt ya…
Wendy Torrance: Stay away! Stop it!
Jack Torrance: Stop swingin’ the bat. Put the bat down, Wendy. Wendy? Give me the bat…” -Danny Torrance and Wendy, ‘The Shining’.
48.”Jack Torrance: He is a very willful boy.
Mr. Grady: Indeed he is, Mr. Torrance. A very willful boy. A rather naughty boy, if I may be so bold, sir.” –Jack Torrance and Mr. Grady, ‘The Shining’.
49.”Jack Torrance: Has it ever occurred to you! Has it?!
Torrance Wendy: Stay away from me.
Jack Torrance: Why?
Wendy Torrance: I just wanna go back to my room!” –Danny Torrance and Wendy, ‘The Shining’.
50.”Wendy Torrance: Well, I think… maybe… he should be taken to a doctor.
Jack Torrance: You think ‘maybe’ he should be taken to a doctor?
Wendy Torrance: Yes.
Jack Torrance: When do you think ‘maybe’ he should be taken to a doctor?
Wendy Torrance: As soon as possible…?
Jack Torrance [mocking/imitating her]: As soon as possible…?” –Danny Torrance and Wendy, ‘The Shining’.
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