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It is the tale, not he who tells it.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.
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It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.
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he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.
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I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.
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I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.
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Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.
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Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.
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When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.
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There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.
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As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.
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Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.
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