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The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand Constant Reader and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.
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I don't want you to apologize for being rich I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.
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I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free.
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...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages.
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If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?
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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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Pray for rain while digging a well.
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Gordie: Do you think I'm weird? Chris: Definitely. Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird? Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird
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Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
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Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.
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Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.
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Pain is the biggest power of love.
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Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
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The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
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Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
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Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read a lot. They have a tendency to go toward the paranormal, romances, Twilight and stuff like that. And then it starts to taper off because other things take precedence, like the Kardashian sisters.
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