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More Stephen King Quotes
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Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
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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 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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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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There’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.
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The brain is a muscle that can move the world.
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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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You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.
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True sorrow is as rare as true love.
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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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In the year 2025, the best men don’t run for president, they run for their lives.
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Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
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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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Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.
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Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
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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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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.
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If the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
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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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If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.
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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
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To write is human, to edit is divine.
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