Stephen King quotes - page 26

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either. (Stephen King)
You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify. View quote
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I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know. View quote
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There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired. View quote
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Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the same. I only want to race along Beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo choo train Until the day I die. View quote
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The turtle couldn't help us. View quote
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They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected... but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction. View quote
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It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's. View quote
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I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one. View quote
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I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that. View quote
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My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams. (Stephen King)
It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life. View quote
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Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time. View quote
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Time is a face on the water. View quote
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I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. View quote
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But people love a hypocrite, you know--they recognize one of their own, and it always feels so good when someone gets caught with his pants down and his dick up and it isn't you. View quote
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If,' Roland said. 'An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long. View quote
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They say The Pacific 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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Frightened people live in their own special hell. You could say they make it themselves, but they can't help it. It's the way they're built. They deserve sympathy and compassion. View quote
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I'm not sure anybody ever gets completely over their first love, and that still rankles. Part of me still wants to know what waswith me. What I was lacking. View quote
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They say suicides and murderers go to Hell. If so, I will know my way around, because I've been there for the last eight years. (Stephen King)
Maybe, in the end it's the voice that tells the stories more than the stories themselves that matters. View quote
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Creative people probably do run a greater risk of alcoholism and addiction than those in some other jobs, but so what? We all look pretty much the same when we're puking in the gutter. View quote
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You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair–the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page. View quote
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The tears were flowing again, but he smiled. "That's how it is every day", he said, "all over the world." View quote
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