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> [“everyone is dead and this is hell.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/everyone-is-dead-and-this-is-hell/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [“Do the dead sing? Do they love?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/do-the-dead-sing-do-they-love/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [“Better to be dirty than dead.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/better-to-be-dirty-than-dead/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [Sometimes dead is better](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/sometimes-dead-is-better/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/i-m-going-to-be-dead-for-a-long-time-so-i-have-a-lot-to-do-now/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [“If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/if-a-book-is-not-alive-in-the-writer-s-mind-it-is-as-dead-as-year-old/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [“Sometimes, dead is bettah" - Jud Crandall, Pet Sematary”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/sometimes-dead-is-bettah-jud-crandall-pet-sematary/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/even-the-company-of-the-mad-was-better-than-the-company-of-the-dead/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/dead-was-the-gift-that-kept-on-giving-dead-like-diamonds-was-forever/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [“Don’t speak to them in the language of the dead, Mr. Marinville.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/don-t-speak-to-them-in-the-language-of-the-dead-mr-marinville/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/take-the-dead-from-the-dead-the-old-proverb-said-only-a-corpse-may/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/you-re-dead-george-you-just-don-t-have-the-sense-to-lie-down/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [“No one pronounced Jerusalems Lot dead on the morning of October 6; no one knew it was. Like the bodies of previous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/no-one-pronounced-jerusalems-lot-dead-on-the-morning-of-october-6-no/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [“These are things made for thinking on slowly, ... Things to be thought on at length, while the hands do their work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/these-are-things-made-for-thinking-on-slowly-things-to-be-thought-on/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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## Other authors on Dead

## More by Stephen King

> [Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/shall-there-be-truth-between-us-as-two-men-not-as-friends-but-as/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

> [The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-worst-advice-don-t-listen-to-the-critics-i-think-that-you-really/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

> [“October 3, 2017 The clown, Hagarty said, looked like a cross between Ronald McDonald and that old TV clown, Bozo—or so he thought at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/october-3-2017-the-clown-hagarty-said-looked-like-a-cross-between/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

> [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/eddie-saw-great-things-and-near-misses-albert-einstein-as-a-child-not/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

> [It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/it-hurt-of-course-but-more-often-than-not-the-best-things-do-i-ve/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-idea-that-creative-endeavor-and-mind-altering-substances-are/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

> [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-sun-had-burned-through-and-the-day-had-gone-from-dull-to-dazzling/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/god-you-had-enough-time-to-have-been-through-it-three-times-you-ve/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/flakes-of-snow-swirled-and-danced-across-the-porch-the-overlook-faced/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

> [“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/in-that-instant-it-all-seemed-to-come-clear-to-him-it-came-in-a/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/who-gets-to-be-best-liked-in-any-community-who-is-the-most-trusted/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

> [“¿Lo ves, tonto? Volvió a regañarse. Tú lo inventaste todo, gato asustado. No fue más que tu imaginación, gato asustado, gato asustado... No te…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/lo-ves-tonto-volvi-a-rega-arse-t-lo-inventaste-todo-gato-asustado-no/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

> [“Death . . . but not for you. That was what Walter, clever as Satan even at the end, had said. A lawyer’s answer . . . so close to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/death-but-not-for-you-that-was-what-walter-clever-as-satan-even-at/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

> [The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-ghost-story-movie-that-scared-me-the-most-was-the-changeling-with/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

> [“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/climb-aboard-jonesy-i-m-going-to-send-you-up-where-the-air-is-rare/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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