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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.
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Friends don’t spy true friendship is about privacy, too.
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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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A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.
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The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.
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If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.
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I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a book for the intellectual or the mental part of it, but, the first time, I just like to reach out and grab you, pull you in.
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A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.
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When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.
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You know, Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early light of morning, I've heard the saying 'That sucks' for years without really being sure of what it meant. Now I think I know.
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Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.
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There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.
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I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an orchard keeper! - but I wouldn't wish the burden of Mid-World and the Dark Tower on them. I enjoy working with them, though, because we fit together.
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Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.
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They were close to the end of the beginning . . .
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She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.
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Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.
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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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I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.
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What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?
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