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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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magic
reading
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Stephen King |
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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Stephen King |
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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off."
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religion
humor
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Stephen King |
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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Stephen King |
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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
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Stephen King |
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Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
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letting-go
freedom
friends
friendship
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Stephen King |
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you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.
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writing
positive-thinking
self-empowerment
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Stephen King |
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A short story is a different thing altogether - a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
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writing
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Stephen King |
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Go then, there are other worlds than these.
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jon-jake-chambers
tower
stephen-king
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Stephen King |
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The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.
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Stephen King |
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Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.
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Stephen King |
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That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
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humor
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Stephen King |
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Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.
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Stephen King |
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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
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humor
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Stephen King |
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Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's.
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Stephen King |
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I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.
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Stephen King |
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The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
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horror
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Stephen King |
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Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.
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Stephen King |
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When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
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Stephen King |
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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
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Stephen King |
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Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
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writing
inspirational
productivity
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Stephen King |
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Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
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time
life
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Stephen King |
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Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too.
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Stephen King |
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Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of..
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Stephen King |
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FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.
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humour
stephen-king
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Stephen King |
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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
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Stephen King |
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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
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writing
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Stephen King |
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Friends. They aren't any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend. People who stand by you when you're hurt and who helped you feel not so lonely. Maybe there are worth being scared for and hoping for and living for. Maybe worth dying for too. If that what has to be. No bad friends. Only people you want.
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Stephen King |
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No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.
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survival
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Stephen King |
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Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
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Stephen King |
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Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings.
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writing
deleting
revising
editing
kill
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Stephen King |
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In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.
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Stephen King |
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there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.
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preparedness
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Stephen King |
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A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take
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tragedy
creativity
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Stephen King |
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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
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inspirational
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Stephen King |
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And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.
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Stephen King |
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Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
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Red in Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King |
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It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
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dark
day
night
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Stephen King |
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We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
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life
teaching
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Stephen King |
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If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.
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Stephen King |
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Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.
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Stephen King |
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But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.
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seasons
september
fall
summer
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Stephen King |
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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
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morality
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Stephen King |
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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
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philosophy
inspirational
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Stephen King |