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The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
Stephen KingStephen King In the year 2025, the best men don’t run for president, they run for their lives.
Stephen KingStephen King Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.
Stephen KingStephen King It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.
Stephen KingStephen King Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Stephen KingStephen King Sometimes when you’re young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you’re living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
Stephen KingStephen King A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
Stephen KingStephen King Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
Stephen KingStephen King Get busy living or get busy dying.
Stephen KingStephen King Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.
Stephen KingStephen King Love isn’t soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
Stephen KingStephen King Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.
Stephen KingStephen King A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God’s creatures.
Stephen KingStephen King A coward judges all he sees by what he is.
Stephen KingStephen King True sorrow is as rare as true love.
Stephen KingStephen King Some things were better lost than found.
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My heart keeps room for you always even when you can’t be here.
Holly DuxburyHolly Duxbury You are seeing humanity at its worst and best. A collision of the circumstance.
Samantha King HolmesSamantha King Holmes Treat her like a dream. Follow her, pursue her, and always remind her that you’ll never give up on her.
Jenny AJenny A I care but I’m done trying. I love but I’m done showing.
Divya khandalDivya khandal Never feel defined by your size, measures, and beauty standards.
Jacklyn TysonJacklyn Tyson The wild is always changing like a reminder. You do not have to be the same to be beautiful.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura Bees and butterflies in my belly with you on my mind they chase each other around.
Jenny WinbladhJenny Winbladh I long for you but you long for someone else, I deny the one who wants me cause I want someone else.
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I know I could be a petty queen, I could release all the receipts the way you treated me. But honey I’m happier living in peace than cruelty.
Maggie BowyerMaggie Bowyer This cruel world fails to embrace the beauty of tender souls and then wonders why everyone turns cold?
Shruthi SagarShruthi Sagar People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
Che GuevaraChe Guevara To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Eldridge CleaverEldridge Cleaver You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Eldridge CleaverEldridge Cleaver