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For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.
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reality
eddie
stephen
it
pennywise
nightmare
king
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Stephen King |
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The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.
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Stephen King |
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Things do happen for a reason, but do we like the reason? Rarely.
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Stephen King |
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Head clear. Mouth shut. See much. Say little.
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Roland Deschain (Stephen King) |
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But hardly anybody ever finds out that their actions really, actually, hurt other people! People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.
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Stephen King |
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A man who lies about beer makes enemies
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enemies
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Stephen King |
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My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.
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Stephen King |
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It didn't occur to me until later that there's another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.
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greed
hypocrecy
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Stephen King |
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Now the two of them rode silently toward town, both lost in their own thoughts. Their way took them past the Delgado house. Roland looked up and saw Susan sitting in her window, a bright vision in the gray light of that fall morning. His heart leaped up and although he didn't know it then, it was how he would remember her most clearly forever after- lovely Susan, the girl in the window. So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our li..
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loss
love
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Stephen King |
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There are things of such darkness and horror--just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty--that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.
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Stephen King |
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I loved you then and I love you now and I have loved you every second in between.
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time
love
stephen-king
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Stephen King |
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It's probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary, it seems that some exponential effect begins to obtain as deeper and deeper darkness falls-as little as one may like to admit it, human experience tends, in a good many ways, to support the idea that when the nightmare grows black enough, horror spawns horror, one coincidental evil begets other, often more deliberate evi..
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Stephen King |
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Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.
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love
unforgiving
forgive
forgiveness
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Stephen King |
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Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.
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humor
stephen-king
it
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Stephen King |
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I'm not sure anybody ever gets completely over their first love, and that still rankles. Part of me still wants to know what was with me. What I was lacking.
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Stephen King |
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Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.
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Stephen King |
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It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor.
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Stephen King |
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By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.
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inspirational
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Stephen King |
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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 ma..
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Stephen King |
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If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?
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learning
efforts
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Stephen King |
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It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.
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responsibility
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Stephen King |
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we are going to understand all about the difference between people and pieces of paper in a file, and the difference between doing your job and getting jobbed...
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Richard Bachman (Pseudonym) Stephen King |
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Creepy as hell. You ever see that TV movie about the clown in the sewer?
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Stephen King |
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Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.
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Stephen King |
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If you can't let go of the past, the mistakes you've made will eat you alive.
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Stephen King |
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For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.
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Stephen King |
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The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.
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Stephen King |
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No great thing is created suddenly.
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Stephen King |
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This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.
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Stephen King |
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They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected...but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.
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Stephen King |
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I write for love, but love doesn't pay the bills.
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Stephen King |
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He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
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man
responsibility
stephen
running
pride
manhood
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Stephen King |
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Sanity: You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all, sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that... I think; therefore I am. There are hairs on my face; therefore I shave. My wife and child have been critically injured in a car crash; therefore I pray. It's all logical, it's all sane. ...there's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face..
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Richard Bachman (Pseudonym) Stephen King |
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Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief's sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.
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Stephen King |
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If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.
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Stephen King |
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If you want to play, you gotta pay.
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Stephen King |
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Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
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story
writing
plot
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Stephen King |
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I'm not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they're wearing... I can always get a J. Crew catalogue... ...So spare me, if you please, the hero's 'sharply intelligent blue eyes' and 'outthrust determined chin'.
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Stephen King |
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Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.
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Stephen King |
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sometimes you get what you want, but mostly you get what you get.
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Stephen King |
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I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead)...
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Stephen King |
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There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.
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Stephen King |
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You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?"
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Stephen King |
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If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.
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Stephen King |