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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.
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Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess.
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If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.
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Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.
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She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.
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I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.
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We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
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No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.
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I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble.
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Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody
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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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The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.
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Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.
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What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?
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The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.
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Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.
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Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.
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So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.
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There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal Once upon a time.
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I don't want you to apologize for being rich I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.
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