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.
STEPHEN KINGHearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.
More Stephen King Quotes
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You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.
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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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A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God’s creatures.
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.
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Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
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Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend.
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It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.
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Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.
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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.
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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
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If you liked being a teenager, there’s something really wrong with you.
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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
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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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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.
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