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.
STEPHEN KINGBooks 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.
More Stephen King Quotes
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Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.
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Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.
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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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God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
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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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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
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Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
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Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You, you fill me up.
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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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If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.
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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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The only religions I don’t like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.
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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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Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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