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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.
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But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.
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He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
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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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You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives
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Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read a lot. They have a tendency to go toward the paranormal, romances, Twilight and stuff like that. And then it starts to taper off because other things take precedence, like the Kardashian sisters.
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We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
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I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.
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Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.
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We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.
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God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.
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and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max.
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As a species we're fundamentally insane.
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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.
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So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious.
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
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The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.
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They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.
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He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.
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A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.
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