The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
STEPHEN KINGOnly children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.
More Stephen King Quotes
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A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.
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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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Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
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Don’t give me what I ask for, give me what I need.
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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
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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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Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.
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Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman’s got to hold on to.
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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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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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The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
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No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
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A coward judges all he sees by what he is.
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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
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Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.
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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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Some things were better lost than found.
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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.
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If you liked being a teenager, there’s something really wrong with you.
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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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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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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