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There's always a choice. That's God's way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There's no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.
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The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.
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Stephen King |
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They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.
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young-love
high-school
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Stephen King |
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Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting---not for the first time---on the peculiarity of adults. Thet took laxatives, liquor, or sleeping pills to drive away their terrors so that sleep would come, and their terrors were so tame and domestic: the job, the money, what the teacher will think if I can't get Jennie nicer clothes, does my wife still love me, who are my friends. They were pallid compared to the fears every chil..
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Stephen King |
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Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.
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musicals
plays
directing
teens
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Stephen King |
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626f0c6
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May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.
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revenge
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Stephen King |
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e74c358
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I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
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writing
writers
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Stephen King |
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68f2503
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When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.
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Stephen King |
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52068c0
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Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.
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Stephen King |
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81b00d0
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See the TURTLE, ain't he keen? All things serve the fuckin Beam.
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eddie
the-dark-tower
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Stephen King |
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We never know. Any day could be the day we go down, and we never know.
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Stephen King |
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When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story," he said. "When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story."
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Stephen King |
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She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if they all sensed it - they had seen the world - but even George was silent for a minute as they looked, and the scene, the smell, even the sound of the band playing a faintly recognisable movie theme, was locked forever in her, and she was at peace.
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memory
nostalgia
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Stephen King |
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5710d48
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Shit don't mean shit
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life
inspirational
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Stephen King |
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67996cc
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The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts, huge, standing to the sky for what looked like eternity in all directions. It was white and blinding and waterless and without feature save for the faint, cloudy haze of the mountains which sketched themselves on the horizon and the devil-grass which brought sweet dreams, nightmares, death. An occasional tombstone sign pointed ..
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Stephen King |
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a51dcf0
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It's best to be ruthless with the past.
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past
ruthless
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Stephen King |
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efa255e
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Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do.
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Stephen King |
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Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.
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past
ghosts
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Stephen King |
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There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.
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Stephen King |
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0be3199
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We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.
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Stephen King |
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Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead,
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Stephen King |
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He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility.
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madness
loneliness
reason
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Stephen King |
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Where you think I'm goan?' 'Well,' Eddie said, 'what was behind Door Number One wasn't so hot, and what was behind Door Number Two was even worse, so now, instead of quitting like sane people, we're going to go right on ahead and check out Door Number Three. The way things have been going, I think it's likely to be something like Godzilla or Ghidra the Three-Headed Monster, but I'm an optimist. I'm still hoping for the stainless steel cook..
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Stephen King |
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Are you decent?" Richards asked.
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Richard Bachman (Stephen King) |
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I loved you guys, you know. I loved you so much.
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Stephen King |
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Small children are great accepters. They don't understand shame, or the need to hide things.
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Stephen King |
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He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.
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bravery
character
life-lessons
cowards
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Stephen King |
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You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.
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Stephen King |
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Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street. A teenage boy named Albert Schweitzer getting out of a bathtub and not quite stepping on the cake of soap lying beside the pulled plug. A Nazi Oberleutnant burning a piece of paper with the date and place of the D-Day Invasion written on it. He saw a man who intended to poison the entire water supply of Denve..
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Stephen King |
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Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.
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bookstore
bookstores
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Stephen King |
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90dc5be
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Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.
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Stephen King |
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575c9d8
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A life without love is like a tree without fruit.
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Stephen King |
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2c845d8
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There had never been a shortage of fools in the world
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world
stephen-king
stupid
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Stephen King |
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She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.
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Stephen King |
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But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.
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Stephen King |
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Frightened people live in their own special hell. You could say they make it themselves, but they can't help it. It's the way they're built. They deserve sympathy and compassion.
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Stephen King |
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Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vulnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted.
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Stephen King |
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Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't thi..
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peter-mcvries
resignation
tiredness
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Stephen King |
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Maybe, in the end it's the voice that tells the stories more than the stories themselves that matters.
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Stephen King |
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Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand. All the rest is darkness.
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Stephen King |
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You'd be surprised what a person can live with," Dan said."
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Stephen King |
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Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.
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temperment
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Stephen King |
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What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.
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Stephen King |
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b27d97a
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There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.
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