# Quote — Stephen King, The Dark Tower

> You must never draw until you know how many are against you, or you've satisfied yourself that you can never know, or you've decided it's your day to die.

- Author: [Stephen King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king.md)
- Book: [The Dark Tower](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-dark-tower.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)#Vol._VII:_The_Dark_Tower) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-dark-tower/you-must-never

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> Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.

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> The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

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