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Stephen King
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.
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If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?
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Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.
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Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.
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Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.
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And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
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It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
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No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.
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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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Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted.
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It's not the pain I'm afraid of I know about the pain. What I'm afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.
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I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.
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I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one
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What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?
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A kid of your age---any kid---could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?
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It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.
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There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
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