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.
STEPHEN KINGWe never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.
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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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Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
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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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You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.
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Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.
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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
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Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.
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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
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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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Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
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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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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.
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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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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.
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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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