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World Quotes by Stephen King

105 World quotes by Stephen King

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A desert of hard sand can feel lonely, but friendship is like a fresh flower blooming in that dry place. The quotes say love beats hate, that friendship feels like a flower in a desert, and that writing offers a quiet refuge where we can stay brave and keep moving forward.

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where the world ends is where you must begin

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Ka works and the world moves on.

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There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

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“They live in a world which has not moved on.”

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“You rarely get more than one chance in this world.”

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“We rarely get what we imagine in this world.”

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And then the world exploded.

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If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.

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The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.

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“In many ways the world is nothing but a pile of shit. But it can also be very beautiful.”

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“The world is insane. You only have to watch the news to know it.”

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I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

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Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

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“How cruel would a supreme being have to be to make a world as fucked-up as this one?”

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“You had to make your own way in the world; if you were going to get along, you had to do it…

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...maybe the world needs a cadre of smartasses to liven things up, who knows?

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“When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're…

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I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't…

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“Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from 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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Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow…

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Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a…

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See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER…

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Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer…

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How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or…

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It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round,…

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Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This…

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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the…

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I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and…

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there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing:…

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I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by…

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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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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 and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are…

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But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or…

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Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was…

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Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?' Red: 'I…

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For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we…

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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the…

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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…

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“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”