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And this wasn't lying, not really. It was leaving out. (Stephen King)
Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it? View quote
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Art should be a place of hope. View quote
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Mister, we deal in lead. View quote
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Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart. View quote
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The monster nevers dies. View quote
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I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous. View quote
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The color white is the absence of memory. View quote
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Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years. View quote
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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done. View quote
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May be she'll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain. (Stephen King)
An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap. View quote
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All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine. View quote
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I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds. View quote
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Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment. View quote
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because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself. View quote
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You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair... Come to it any way but lightly. View quote
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The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep. View quote
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Explanations are such cheap poetry. (Stephen King)
I started after him... and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was." "Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly. "It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town. View quote
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The thought process can never be complete without articulation. View quote
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Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack? View quote
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I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present. View quote
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