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Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own. (Stephen King)
Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness. View quote
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It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. View quote
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... I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness... View quote
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It's best to be ruthless with the past. View quote
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I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta! View quote
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How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life. View quote
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Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one. View quote
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When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving. View quote
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It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written. View quote
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If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone. (Stephen King)
They were close to the end of the beginning... View quote
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As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along. View quote
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Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story. View quote
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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. View quote
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I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life. View quote
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There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then. View quote
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A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you. View quote
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Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do. View quote
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When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off. View quote
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Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past... That's what ghosts are. (Stephen King)
Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be. View quote
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I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar. View quote
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Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight. View quote
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There's always a choice. That's God's way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There's no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you. View quote
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