Books are a uniquely portable magic.
STEPHEN KINGThe scariest moment is always just before you start.
More Stephen King Quotes
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A life without love is like a tree without fruit.
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Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
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Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life.
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Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
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When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
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Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.
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The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
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If we don’t have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.
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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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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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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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Don’t give me what I ask for, give me what I need.
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True sorrow is as rare as true love.
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Talent is never static. It’s always growing or dying.
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That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
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The past is obdurate.
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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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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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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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Time is the thief of memory.
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God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
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