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A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.
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But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.
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I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.
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There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.
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