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You know, King said, I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not it's the reason I write them down.

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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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If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.
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A person can't change all at once.
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To write is human, to edit is divine.
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Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.
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Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?
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Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.
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I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge.
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Little kids' minds are very, very strong. They bend. There's a lot of tensile strength and they don't break. We start our kids off on things like Hansel and Gretel, which features child abandonment, kidnapping, attempted murder, forcible detention, cannibalism, and finally murder by cremation. And the kids love it.
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It's a hard life if you don't weaken.
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You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives
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A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise.
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I tend to scare myself.
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