There’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.
STEPHEN KINGIn the year 2025, the best men don’t run for president, they run for their lives.
More Stephen King Quotes
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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
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What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
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Time is the thief of memory.
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Don’t give me what I ask for, give me what I need.
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Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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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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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.
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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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The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
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If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time to write. Simple as that.
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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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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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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
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Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.
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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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We don’t know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.
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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.
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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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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
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French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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