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Stephen King
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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When facts speak, the wise man listens.
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I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.
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She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe
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...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one - probably a child - who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood the mind is the mallet which drives it home.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
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Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.
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Was it pretty? Your country. . .your land? It was beautiful, the gunslinger said. There were fields and forests and rivers and mists in the morning. But that's only pretty. My mother used to say that the only real beauty is order and love and light.
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Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.
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Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.
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Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.
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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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The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.
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And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for a fair amount of criticism.
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I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.
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Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.
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I'd like to take a motorcycle trip across Europe, maybe even across China. Of course I'd also like to broker a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but it's important to put ceilings on one's ambitions.
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Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.
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