The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.
STEPHEN KINGMemories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
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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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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.
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
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Some things were better lost than found.
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It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.
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The brain is a muscle that can move the world.
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Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.
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Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
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A coward judges all he sees by what he is.
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The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
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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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It’s funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?
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Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.
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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
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You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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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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When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
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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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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
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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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A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God’s creatures.
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