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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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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me.
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And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.
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We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
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Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.
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Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.
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