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2d2888d	Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.		Stephen King
8dd7332	Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but 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.	reading writing society norms politeness	Stephen King
777a417	Sometimes she'd go a whole day without thinking of him or missing him. Why not? She had quite a full life, and really, he'd often been hard to deal with and hard to live with. A project, the Yankee oldtimers like her very own Dad might have said. And then sometimes a day would come, a gray one (or a sunny one) when she missed him so fiercely she felt empty, not a woman at all anymore but just a dead tree filled with cold November blow. She ..	love	Stephen King
688f4e8	One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.	writing dress-up embarrassing vocabulary style	Stephen King
69e1553	She put a hand on his hip and turned him to her. "But things could go wrong, so i want to tell you something while it's just the two of us, Eddie. I want to tell you how much I love you." She spoke simply, with no drama. I know you do," he said, "but I'll be damned if I know why." Because you made me feel whole," she said. "When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was ..		Stephen King
e65d563	and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.	world love victim power	Stephen King
b641b15	He killed them with their love		Stephen King
86d28d5	Love isn't soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.		Stephen King
b91fe47	The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.	stephen	Stephen King
981beaf	God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.		Stephen King
6dc876b	Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone's chair, but I'm ready for this and I catch her easily by the arm. "Sorry, clumsy," she says. "You always were, Sadie. One of your more endearing traits." Before she can ask about that I slip my arm around her waist. She slips hers around mine, still looking up at me. The lights skate across her cheeks and shine in her eyes. We clasp hands, fingers fold..	time-travel lost-love	Stephen King
f594a54	I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?		Stephen King
076d612	Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.	murder	Stephen King
dbc0272	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. ...this book...is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water o..	writing-from-the-heart writers-on-writing writing-philosophy writing-advice	Stephen King
ea2e375	I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.		Stephen King
9b53be2	The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.	procrastination	Stephen King
ad5b2f6	The past is obdurate.		Stephen King
faef5a9	Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.		Stephen King
f2966b0	When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.		Stephen King
8467e70	Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?' Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.' Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.' Red: 'Forget?' Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...tha..	music	Stephen King
46106cf	Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.		Stephen King
15b9509	The turtle couldn't help us.		Stephen King
463fef4	Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.		Stephen King
8505a05	They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?	humanity life humanity-and-society	Stephen King
8e510d6	Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear	love	Stephen King
0e95b59	Words have weight.	words writing truth	Stephen King
e3e5bd7	It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.		Stephen King
e8f6669	Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.		Stephen King
d9ef4bd	If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.		Stephen King
021646d	He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.	thirst stephen-king horror hell	Stephen King
e3f5084	Weird love's better than no love at all.		Stephen King
f170429	Get busy living or get busy dying.....there ain't nothing inbetween		Stephen King
e69b627	The good thing about being old, is you don't have to worry about dying young.	inspirational	Stephen King
3b30281	SSDD Same Shit Different Day		Stephen King
e38df74	Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.	life full-dark-no-stars roll sevens stephen-king fair	Stephen King
41b3b80	Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.	love the-stand stephen-king	Stephen King
23288a2	Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.	inspirational	Stephen King
7968788	The mystery of the universe is not time but size.		Stephen King
3de83aa	If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.	kindness	Stephen King
d35ca49	I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.		Stephen King
622fcb4	A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it.		Stephen King
0c4fa30	If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them."	challenged-books freedom-of-speech censorship	Stephen King
982942b	The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.		Stephen King
f6a77fb	It's offense you maybe can't live with because it opens up a crack inside your thinking, and if you look down into it you see there are evil things down there, and they have little yellow eyes that don't blink, and there's a stink down there in that dark and after a while you think maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and som..		Stephen King

Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.

Stephen King

8dd7332

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but 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.

reading writing society norms politeness

Stephen King

777a417

Sometimes she'd go a whole day without thinking of him or missing him. Why not? She had quite a full life, and really, he'd often been hard to deal with and hard to live with. A project, the Yankee oldtimers like her very own Dad might have said. And then sometimes a day would come, a gray one (or a sunny one) when she missed him so fiercely she felt empty, not a woman at all anymore but just a dead tree filled with cold November blow. She ..

love

Stephen King

688f4e8

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.

writing dress-up embarrassing vocabulary style

Stephen King

69e1553

She put a hand on his hip and turned him to her. "But things could go wrong, so i want to tell you something while it's just the two of us, Eddie. I want to tell you how much I love you." She spoke simply, with no drama. I know you do," he said, "but I'll be damned if I know why." Because you made me feel whole," she said. "When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was ..

Stephen King

e65d563

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

world love victim power

Stephen King

b641b15

He killed them with their love

Stephen King

86d28d5

Love isn't soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

Stephen King

b91fe47

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

stephen

Stephen King

981beaf

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.

Stephen King

6dc876b

Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone's chair, but I'm ready for this and I catch her easily by the arm. "Sorry, clumsy," she says. "You always were, Sadie. One of your more endearing traits." Before she can ask about that I slip my arm around her waist. She slips hers around mine, still looking up at me. The lights skate across her cheeks and shine in her eyes. We clasp hands, fingers fold..

time-travel lost-love

Stephen King

f594a54

I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

Stephen King

076d612

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

murder

Stephen King

dbc0272

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. ...this book...is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water o..

writing-from-the-heart writers-on-writing writing-philosophy writing-advice

Stephen King

ea2e375

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

Stephen King

9b53be2

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

procrastination

Stephen King

ad5b2f6

The past is obdurate.

Stephen King

faef5a9

Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.

Stephen King

f2966b0

When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.

Stephen King

8467e70

Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?' Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.' Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.' Red: 'Forget?' Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...tha..

music

Stephen King

46106cf

Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.

Stephen King

15b9509

The turtle couldn't help us.

Stephen King

463fef4

Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.

Stephen King

8505a05

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

humanity life humanity-and-society

Stephen King

8e510d6

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear

love

Stephen King

0e95b59

Words have weight.

words writing truth

Stephen King

e3e5bd7

It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.

Stephen King

e8f6669

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Stephen King

d9ef4bd

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

Stephen King

021646d

He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.

thirst stephen-king horror hell

Stephen King

e3f5084

Weird love's better than no love at all.

Stephen King

f170429

Get busy living or get busy dying.....there ain't nothing inbetween

Stephen King

e69b627

The good thing about being old, is you don't have to worry about dying young.

inspirational

Stephen King

3b30281

SSDD Same Shit Different Day

Stephen King

e38df74

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

life full-dark-no-stars roll sevens stephen-king fair

Stephen King

41b3b80

Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.

love the-stand stephen-king

Stephen King

23288a2

Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

inspirational

Stephen King

7968788

The mystery of the universe is not time but size.

Stephen King

3de83aa

If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

kindness

Stephen King

d35ca49

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

Stephen King

622fcb4

A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it.

Stephen King

0c4fa30

If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them."

challenged-books freedom-of-speech censorship

Stephen King

982942b

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

Stephen King

f6a77fb

It's offense you maybe can't live with because it opens up a crack inside your thinking, and if you look down into it you see there are evil things down there, and they have little yellow eyes that don't blink, and there's a stink down there in that dark and after a while you think maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and som..

Stephen King