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there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.
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shame
fool
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We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.
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life
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He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts
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I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they're like dandelions. If you have one on your lawn, it looks pretty and unique. If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day... fifty the day after that... and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions. By then you see them for the weeds they rea..
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Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.
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Speech destroys the function of love, I think-that's a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I believe it to be true. If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words can close those love bites. it's the other way around, that's the joke. If those wounds dry up, the words die with them.
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Dancing is life.
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It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.
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Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.
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A person's never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain
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Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.
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In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don't or won't or can't and plenty of them aren't in prison either.
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This is how we go on: one day at a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one breath at a time. Dentists go on one root-canal at a time; boat-builders go on one hull at a time. If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear. We study catalogues, watch football games, choose Sprint over AT&T. We count the birds in the sky and will not turn from the window when we hear the footsteps behind us..
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Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?
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Some of this book--perhaps too much--has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it--and perhaps the best of it--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 of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.
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writing
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Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.
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But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.
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It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.
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Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic.
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Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
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I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?
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Stephen King |
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Let me say it again: You must not come lightly to the blank page.
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He knew as well as we in our own world do that the road to hell is paved with good intentions--but he also knew that, for human beings, good intentions are sometimes all there are. Angels may be safe from damnation, but human beings are less fortunate things, and for them hell is always close.
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What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.
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Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.
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Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?
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dreams
brief
sweet
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All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.
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good-and-evil
light
funny
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Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.
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truth
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We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.
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life
stephen-king
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She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.
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Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.
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jealousy
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Want a balloon?
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stephen-king
pennywise
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I'm the Turtle, son. I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; I had a belly-ache.
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Time is a keyhole, he thought as he looked up at the stars. Yes, I think so. We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do - the wind that blows through the keyhole- is the breath of all the living universe.
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They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.
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man
chambers
dark-tower
deschain
gunslinger
jake
roland
stephen-king
hunger
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Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes.
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lovers
love
horror
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Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart."
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Stephen King |
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I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.
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You just couldn't get hold of the things you had done and turn them right again. Such power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to men and women, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.
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When you want to feel better, call something a piece of shit. It usually works.
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Stephen King |
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The monster nevers dies.
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monster
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Stephen King |
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Art should be a place of hope.
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Stephen King |
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Because talent won't be quiet, doesn't know how to be quiet," he said. "Whether it's a talent for safe-cracking, thought-reading, or dividing ten-digit numbers in your head, it screams to be used. It never shuts up. It'll wake you in the middle of your tiredest night, screaming, 'Use me, use me, use me! I'm tired of just sitting here! Use me, fuckhead, use me!"
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