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Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.
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Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
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friendship
privacy
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So okay-- there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.
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writing
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
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on-writing
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Time's the thief of memory
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time
roland-deschain
memory
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7bc3a5f
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High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.
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9c4ba2e
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We all float down here!
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Stephen King |
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Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
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Stephen King |
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You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
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Stephen King |
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8c5d918
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Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity
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war
analogy
disapproval
paradox
pacifism
motto
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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
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Stephen King |
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She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.
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women
stubborn
soul
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Stephen King |
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07e9300
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It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.
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Stephen King |
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No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
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Stephen King |
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Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him..
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mania
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Stephen King |
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Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
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Stephen King |
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d37254b
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Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
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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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learning
changing
stephen
king
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Stephen King |
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096cbcf
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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
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motivation
talent
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Stephen King |
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822df85
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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.
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Stephen King |
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I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, ..
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suffering
john-coffey
sins
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Stephen King |
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f5a8443
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You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.
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reading
judging
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Stephen King |
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2351c87
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Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.
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Stephen King |
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ecd1fd8
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Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
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fear
eddie
grownups
stephen-king
it
pennywise
monster
horror
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Stephen King |
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4078c96
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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that's not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It's hard and pai..
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Stephen King |
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When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect that you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost.
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Stephen King |
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846374b
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Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.
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Stephen King |
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Am I weird?
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inspirational
stand-by-me
stephen-king
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Stephen King |
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Sometimes dead is better
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death
undead
dead
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Stephen King |
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d6beda4
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Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."
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stand-by-me
stephen-king
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Stephen King |
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I have spent a good many years since--too many, I think--being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.
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writing-life
writing
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Stephen King |
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a6bde2e
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Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.
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Stephen King |
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640a893
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Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar. Art consists of the persistence of memory.
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persistence
hurts
stephen-king
novels
requirements
talent
misery
remember
scars
writers
memory
stories
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Stephen King |
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75d0b61
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To write is human, to edit is divine.
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inspirational
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Stephen King |
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4fab812
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If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.
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Stephen King |
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If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.
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Stephen King |
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Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.
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Stephen King |
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A coward judges all he sees by what he is.
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Stephen King |
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True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring -- once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome... except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners...
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Stephen King |
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A person can't change all at once.
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Stephen King |
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stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.
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Stephen King |
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e2e6d5b
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There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
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moving
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Stephen King |
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2735e15
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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.
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Stephen King |
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I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read
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