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Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known previously. It circulated like weird serum, cold on the right side of her body, then hot on the left, where her heart was. It seemed to come nowhere near her head, which remained clear.
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If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.
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Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.
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the only mortal sin is giving up.
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sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?
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Memories are contrary things if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
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The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.
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The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
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Politics always change. Stories never do.
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I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.
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