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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.
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A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.
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God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.
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At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.
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I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint every line in the dirt like a secret message.
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