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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it goes back to Dracula, where someone dumps a crucifix in Count Dracula's face, and he pulls away and runs back into his house. That's not religion. That's some kind of juju, like a talisman.
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I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
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A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures.
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It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.
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The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
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...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.
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The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to the movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands... and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh.
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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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There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.
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You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.
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Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.
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Words create sentences sentences create paragraphs sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
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Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.
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I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
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If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.
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I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times.
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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
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He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.
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God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.
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Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.
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