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I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.
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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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You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify
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To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don't even think about money.
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When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.
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If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb
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The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
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Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.
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I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
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It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.
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...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages.
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It's not the pain I'm afraid of I know about the pain. What I'm afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.
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you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
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A product can be quickly outdated, but a successful brand is timeless.
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He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.
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As for the end of the universe…I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?
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You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.
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My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight I never forgot it.
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