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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Kill you all! The clown was laughing and screaming. Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!
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The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker
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But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.
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First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead
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Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.
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Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, I'm in the very front row of the second rate. I'm sort of haunted by that.
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The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to the movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands... and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh.
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The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.
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When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.
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She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe
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And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
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You can't polish a turd.
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A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.
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I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed.
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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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City life is no life for a country man for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.
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Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.
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Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might as well try to stop the wind from blowing.
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I know I can do it, Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.
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The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.
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