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Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.
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Stephen King
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's like a kid's toy that you push and tug around the room. It's fun, it's bright, it's pretty and maybe it'll go clack-clack or whiz-whiz, whatever it happens to do. I like to make believe.
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Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.
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She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.
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You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.
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The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.
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Kill you all! The clown was laughing and screaming. Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!
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I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.
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It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.
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