What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
STEPHEN KINGSooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.
More Stephen King Quotes
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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
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Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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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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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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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
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Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.
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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.
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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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No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.
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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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French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
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Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
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Talent is never static. It’s always growing or dying.
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Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
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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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Time is the thief of memory.
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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.
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The brain is a muscle that can move the world.
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You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
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The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
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A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God’s creatures.
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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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There is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.
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God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
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