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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.
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I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.
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I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me.
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If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone
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It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.
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At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes away your hair and your jump-shot, according to a popular country song, but in truth it takes away a lot more than that.
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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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Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.
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If you want to play, you gotta pay.
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Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.
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Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.
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I think what you do is, you keep your sensors open. And it's - the more that you do the job, the more you come to understand in a kind of intuitive way that you're always - you know, your radar is on. And the thing is going around and around and around. And it's not picking up any blips.
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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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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
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God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often
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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
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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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Memories are contrary things if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
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I got letters from people that have had peculiar psychic experiences, experiences with the dead - sometimes fairly tranquil experiences and sometimes very terrifying experiences. I do believe that a lot of them are sincere. I do believe, also, that some of them may be misguided. But, I think the majority of them have experienced something.
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The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.
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