People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
STEPHEN KINGA short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
More Stephen King Quotes
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
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There is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.
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In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.
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The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.
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Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
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Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.
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The past is obdurate.
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God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
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It’s funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?
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Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.
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Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
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If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time to write. Simple as that.
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I think that we’re all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better – and maybe not all that much better after all.
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Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.
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