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What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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When I gave up dope and alcohol, my immediate feeling was 'I've saved my life, but there'll be a price because I'll have nothing that buzzes me any more'. But I enjoyed my kids. My wife loved me and I loved her. And eventually the writing came back and I discovered that the writing was enough. Stupid thing is that probably it always had been.
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All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.
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Don’t go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to, Doctor. The barrier was not made to be broken. Remember this: there is more power here than you know. It is old and always restless. Remember.
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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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Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not perfect - is pretty spooky.
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It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.
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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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The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.
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There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.
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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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The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.
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Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.
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Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.
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I don't take notes I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar.
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Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
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If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.
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The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
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Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.
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