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Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.
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Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.
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But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.
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He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep
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Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.
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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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Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.
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