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Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.
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Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.
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The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.
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I'm going crazy, Louis thought wonderingly. Wheeeeee!
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They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.
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Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.
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Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.
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Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.
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Born in Lust, Turn to Dust. Born in Sin, Come on In
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A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.
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There was no death row at Cold Mountain, only E Block, set apart from the other four and about a quarter their size, brick instead of wood, with a horrible bare metal roof that glared in the summer sun like a delirious eyeball.
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Life isn't a support-system for art. It's the other way around.
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There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.
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You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn't question knowing.
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He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.
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I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.
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For no reason at all, I thought of New Year's Eve, when all those people crowd into Times Square and scream like jackals as the lighted ball slides down the pole, ready to shed its thin party glare on three hundred and sixty-five new days in this best of all possible worlds. I have always wondered what it would be like to be caught in one of those crowds, screaming and not able to hear your own voice, your individuality momentarily wiped out and replaced with the blind empathic overslop of the crowd's lurching, angry anticipation, hip to hip and shoulder to shoulder with no one in particular.
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Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.
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Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.
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I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.
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Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly... perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness—the ache of the uprooted plant.
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The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings on the page and in your ear. If you expect it to ring true, then you must talk yourself. Even more important, you must shut up and listen to others talk.
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It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.
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Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.
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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why God? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off".
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
Stephen King
Born:
September 21, 1947
(age 76)
Bio:
Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.
Known for:
The Shining (1977)
The Stand (1978)
Carrie (1974)
Misery (1987)
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