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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.
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When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.
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To the devil with false modesty.
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Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.
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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
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True love always happens in a flash.
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God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often
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I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times.
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When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.
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Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.
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Paul Edgecomb: What do you want me to do John? I'll do it. You want me to let you walk out of here and see how far you get? John Coffey: Now why would you want to do a foolish thing like that? Paul Edgecomb: When I die and I stand before God awaiting judgment and he asks me why I let one of HIS miracles die, what am I gonna say, that it was my job?
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I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.
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Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick it's work... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.
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Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
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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.
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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.
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I always like to see enlightened parents like that it gives me hope for the future.
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and the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins.
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There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.
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Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.
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