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I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.
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Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.
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