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Stephen King Inspirational Quotes (951)

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The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and stars that we know exist, it's extremely unlikely that we are the only form of evolved life.
Stephen Hawking
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I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.
Stephen King
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If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.
Stephen King
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There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.
Stephen King
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People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
Stephen Hawking
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Art should be a place of hope.
Stephen King
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We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.
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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.
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Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.
Stephen Hawking
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When facts speak, the wise man listens.
Stephen King
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Women. They are a complete mystery.
Stephen Hawking
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The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.
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We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.
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A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.
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What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.
Stephen Hawking
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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. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.
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I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.
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Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, I'm in the very front row of the second rate. I'm sort of haunted by that.
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City life is no life for a country man for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.
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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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I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.
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Ka was a wheel it was also a net from which none ever escaped.
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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.
Stephen King
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Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
Stephen King
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