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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.

Stephen King

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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