What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
STEPHEN KINGWe never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.
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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
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You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.
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Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You, you fill me up.
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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
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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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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.
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Some things were better lost than found.
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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
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Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.
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Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.
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Love isn’t soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
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