Stephen King Quotes

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And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

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Don't live in this place. If you're a grad student or if you have a few more courses to pick up, fine. But if you're still hanging out in Orono or Old Town three years from now, living like an undergraduate in some sleazy apartment or trailer park, there's something wrong with you. This is not Never-Neverland. Peter Pan graduated back in '73 and now has a nice little farm in Bethel. You are not the Lost Boys and Lost Girls, but if you stay here too long, you will grow the equivalent of donkey ears. For most of you, it's time to move on. If you didn't have a better time here than you did in high school, you're weird. If you want to stay here and keep being an undergraduate, you're very weird.

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Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.

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For me, it always wants to be sex and always falls short — it's always that adolescent handjob in the bathroom with the door locked.

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I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.

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Sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?

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They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.

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So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.

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It didn't occur to me until later that there's another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

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Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him..

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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.

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He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead—black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs apart, the woman had hers together. Pretty much the story of the human race in sign language.

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Do you happen to have another Condom? I think I've discovered the cure for headaches.

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It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep.

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God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?

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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.

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Love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl...

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The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering if the Lord was going to send her an eagle to fly her those four miles, or send Elijah in his fiery chariot to give her a lift. Blasphemy," she told herself complacently. "The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs.

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Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's.

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High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

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The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

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Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief's sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.

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This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

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If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

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Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?

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A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.

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Afterward Larry felt as if he had been through a long pillow-fight in which all the pillows had been treated with a low-grade poison gas.

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They die and leave their wives their money. I should know, shouldn't I? Sometimes they're driving home from their mistress's apartment and their brakes suddenly fail. An accident, Delores, can be an unhappy woman's best friend.

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Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

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God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

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