We 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.
STEPHEN KINGThe family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
More Stephen King Quotes
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Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.
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A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God’s creatures.
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Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.
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French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
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Talent is never static. It’s always growing or dying.
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
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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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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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Hurt’s a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don’t change facts.
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To write is human, to edit is divine.
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Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.
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The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
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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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