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Dream Quotes by Stephen King

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Stephen King writes that you have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there. He points out that doing the same thing every day can push the mind toward dreaming. He also shares a quiet fear of the moment a sweet dream ends, and how hearts stay connected in dreams.

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Dreams age faster than dreamers.

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“Love is a dream.”

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“Some nightmares never completely ended.”

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“...I turned in and slept like the dead. There were no dreams.”

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The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking.

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“if you tell your dreams, they won’t come true.”

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Its not the pain Im afraid of; I know about the pain. What Im afraid of is the end of this small,…

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The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

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“It did not want new things, ever. It wanted only to eat and sleep and dream and eat again.”

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“When had men not been mystified by women? They were the magic that men dreamed of, and sometimes their dreams were nightmares.”

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“I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.”

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The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.

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“I'm every nightmare you've ever had. I'm your worst dream come true. I'm everything you ever were afraid of.”

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Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

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There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory…

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I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my…

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Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not…

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So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the…

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The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come…

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“I’ll do whatever you want,” Trash said gratefully in the dream. “My life for you! My soul for you!” “I will set…

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“Dreams on waking were like empty cocoons of moths or the split-open husks of milkweed pods, dead shells where life had briefly…

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As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up…

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The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no…

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It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for…

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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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I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the…

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Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave…

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Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in…

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“She dreamed of going into the dining room and finding a woman bound with chains to the long Ethan Allen table there.…

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One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I…

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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 we're actually talking about creative sleep. Like your bedroom, your writing room should be private, a place where you go…

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It's not the pain I'm afraid of; I know about the pain. What I'm afraid of is the end of this small,…

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“there isn’t nobody that can live a natural life without having a few bad dreams.”

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I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence. They're a way of…

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The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're…

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“You have to live where you wake up, even if somebody else dreamed you there.”

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And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

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That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I…

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Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

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