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People Quotes by Stephen King

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I don't like people; they can be overwhelming. He mentions that many people are surprisingly unobservant and that the world often feels chaotic around us. He also encourages writers to blend personal experiences of friendship, love, and work into their stories.

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When people begin to lose hope, there's bound to be explosions.

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“I don't like people. They fuck me up.”

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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

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In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

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“People are only rational on the surface.”

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Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor

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People can be stunningly unobservant.

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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

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And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine…

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I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

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My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

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Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of…

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Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

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Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

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I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

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God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

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Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other…

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Anywhere in New York, anywhere in the country, somewhere there's going to be a Coke sign. People identify with Coke. You can…

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Don't look back, never look back. How often do people tell themselves that after an experience that is exceptionally good (or exceptionally…

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I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you…

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I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things…

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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…

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They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love…

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Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately…

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Where you think I’m goan?’ ‘Well,’ Eddie said, ‘what was behind Door Number One wasn’t so hot, and what was behind Door…

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It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the…

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I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things…

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I don't make movies. I don't feel that I have to have artistic control. Part of this comes from the fact that…

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I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people…

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Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing,…

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The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible…

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Carrie was a terrific piece of work. At the end of the movie comes, when Amy Irving kneels down to put the…

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Money means I can support my family and still do what I love. Not very many people can say that in this…

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Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.

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It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them.

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People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

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We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.

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When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut…

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...I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness...

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I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

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