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Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.
Stephen King
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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Get busy living, or get busy dying.
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When I gave up dope and alcohol, my immediate feeling was 'I've saved my life, but there'll be a price because I'll have nothing that buzzes me any more'. But I enjoyed my kids. My wife loved me and I loved her. And eventually the writing came back and I discovered that the writing was enough. Stupid thing is that probably it always had been.
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They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?
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Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as 'good' and other sorts as 'bad' is fearful behavior.
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He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands.
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Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.
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Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
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Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
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Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise.
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