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If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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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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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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