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.
STEPHEN KINGMemories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
More Stephen King Quotes
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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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If you liked being a teenager, there’s something really wrong with you.
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Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
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If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.
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Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend.
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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
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True sorrow is as rare as true love.
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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
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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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I think that we’re all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better – and maybe not all that much better after all.
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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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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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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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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
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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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Don’t give me what I ask for, give me what I need.
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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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In the year 2025, the best men don’t run for president, they run for their lives.
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A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
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Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
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The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
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Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
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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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The brain is a muscle that can move the world.
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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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Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman’s got to hold on to.
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