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Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.'
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I believe in evil, but all my life I've gone back and forth about whether or not there's an outside evil, whether or not there's a force in the world that really wants to destroy us, from the inside out, individually and collectively.
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I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.
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