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Stephen King describes a writer who shields his eyes to hold onto anger, because that anger feels like bravery. He also says that doing the work he believes God gave him brings true happiness. Finally, he warns that repeating the same actions every day can make the mind drift toward sleep.

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“Right now all he wanted was to get out of this awful place where reality had worn so thin.”

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“Later, Clint would reflect that he should have known Peters was up to something.”

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It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

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He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

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The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

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“He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes.”

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Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.

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“Time passed: the mind rebuilds it's defenses.”

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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.

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Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

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A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain,…

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“He struggled wildly and got one hand free just as a fist looped down into his face like a runaway moon.”

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I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in…

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“It had been no struggle to turn his face to the south and leave it behind — but it had hurt his heart.”

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And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a…

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The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no…

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He needs to be corrected, if you don't mind me saying so. He needs a good talking-to, and perhaps a bit more.…

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“But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped…

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“He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace which is sometimes such fertile soil ; it's the ground from which our…

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The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of…

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My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers…

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He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He…

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As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the…

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“When he got to the tank’s flat, circular cap, it seemed that he must be standing directly under the roof of the…

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He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten…

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Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it,…

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“His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed…

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“And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not…

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Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I…

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Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things…

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Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it…

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

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“Look- here's a table covered with red cloth. On it is a cage the size of a small fish aquarium. In the…

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“None of this was real, after all. It was just a refuge in her mind.”

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And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

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Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

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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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“He felt as he always did when he finished a book — queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success…

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“He felt that if he could get deep down in himself quickly enough, he would be okay, but sympathy might drive him…

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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.”