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I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world. (Stephen King)
Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man. View quote
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Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. View quote
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Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds. View quote
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You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down. View quote
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We 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. View quote
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Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children. View quote
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If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies. View quote
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And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like. View quote
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She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is. View quote
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We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other... except through faith. (Stephen King)
But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on. View quote
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You can't be careful on a skateboard. View quote
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But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe. View quote
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Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me! View quote
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Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." View quote
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I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal. View quote
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It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world. View quote
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Everyone needs a hobby,” he said. "And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave. View quote
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And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside. View quote
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God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will. (Stephen King)
It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it. View quote
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stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE. View quote
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Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because theare funny but because your ownis funny. View quote
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the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood... View quote
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