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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.
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A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.
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He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth of this bed, filled with their peaceful heat under two quilts, and wishing it could be like this forever.
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I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that it's like a license to steal.
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Once again there was the desert, and that only.
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