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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.
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Marriage is referred to in the bible as “mystical union,” and it really is in the sense that two people who don’t know each other get together. I’m always interested in how much you find out about the other person and how much you don’t find out.
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The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.
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It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.
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And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.
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I believe there is an unseen world all around us.
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For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.
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Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody
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As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
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If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.
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Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.
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Little kids' minds are very, very strong. They bend. There's a lot of tensile strength and they don't break. We start our kids off on things like Hansel and Gretel, which features child abandonment, kidnapping, attempted murder, forcible detention, cannibalism, and finally murder by cremation. And the kids love it.
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It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.
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Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.
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Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.
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The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.
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Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story
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Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.
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When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.
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I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times.
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