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Chance Quotes by Stephen King

14 Chance quotes by Stephen King

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If you’ve ever wondered how a master storyteller treats the roll of the dice, this handful of Stephen King’s thoughts on chance offers a quick glimpse. The selections capture his signature blend of suspense and humanity, giving a taste of how he weaves uncertainty into his narratives.

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

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Bad chances were better than no chances.

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...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

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if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. 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 but…

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Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their…

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When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance…

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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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His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said…

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How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick…

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Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to…

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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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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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As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances…

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Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?

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“Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street.…

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It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.

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“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do…

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“The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up.…

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“God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one…

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“Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened…

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“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the…

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Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and…

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“¿Lo ves, tonto? Volvió a regañarse. Tú lo inventaste todo, gato asustado. No fue más que tu imaginación, gato asustado, gato asustado... No te…

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