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I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
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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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