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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

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Stephen King
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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And then the world exploded.
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Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.
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God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.
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Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
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You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
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It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, Here you are. Try not to lose it. But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are too stupid to do it, maybe i ought to.
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I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
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Dreams age faster than dreamers.
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The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.
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Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs.
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The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
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First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead
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Zombies are the new vampire.
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The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.
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Was it pretty? Your country. . .your land? It was beautiful, the gunslinger said. There were fields and forests and rivers and mists in the morning. But that's only pretty. My mother used to say that the only real beauty is order and love and light.
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Ka works and the world moves on.
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