Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.
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.
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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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Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.
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The past is obdurate.
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The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
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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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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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Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
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A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life.
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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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A coward judges all he sees by what he is.
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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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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.
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To write is human, to edit is divine.
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Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
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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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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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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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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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Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.
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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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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
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