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It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

Stephen King

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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Broken Heart Grow Up Happiness Live Magic Moments Thinking Young
Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
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Chase Let Go Memories Past Quit Turn
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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Constant Discipline Dull Knife Meat Talent Tough Work
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
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Deep Karma Time Want
The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.
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Calculate Heart Mind Spirit
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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Encouragement Live Mind Physical Rational Sleep Thinking Writing
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
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Depression Fear Ghost Live Monster Win
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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Close Funny Memories Past Touch
It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.
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Break Up Emotional Hold Let Go Thorns
There is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.
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Couple Gain Love Perhaps Risk
In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
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Call Hobby Obsession Polite Society
People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
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Boredom Done People Thinking Tolerance
Talent is never static. It’s always growing or dying.
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Die Growth Talent
The brain is a muscle that can move the world.
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Brain Business Motivational Move Muscle World
Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
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Angry Humour Make Up
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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Dimnish Important Shame Truth

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

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It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

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