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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: 76
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.
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To the devil with false modesty.
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And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.
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Death was no less a miracle than birth.
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We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.
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I can see your dirtypillows.
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Mornings belong to whatever is new the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.
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When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.
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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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How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?
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But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.
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Make-up covers a multitude of sins.
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Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.
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A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.
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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.
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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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