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Stephen King

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[Wikipedia] Stephen Edwin King is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror fiction and has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. He has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in

Quotes by Stephen King · Page 137

“No community is easier to govern than one that rejects the very concept of community.”

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“Throw our your mean words, Mr. Freemantle. Art should be a place of hope, not doubt.”

Art

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It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why…

Art

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“Last reason for reading horror: it’s a rehearsal for death. It’s a way to get ready. People say there’s nothing sure but…

Better place

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“And the Levite also passed by on the other side,' [...] That's King James for fuck you, lady.”

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“Baby Jesus, meek and mild, pray for me, an orphan child. Be my strength, be my friend, be with me until the…

Amen

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I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want…

Bits

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“A crazy certainty had arisen in his mind: a hand - or perhaps a claw - was going to swim up from…

Claw

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“I’d jump out of her mouth some night while she’s snoring and run the fuck away.”

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“them up when the other team had a runner on third. By the time the Yankees came to town—this was going on…

First place

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“Se empieza así: poniendo el escritorio en una esquina y, a la hora de sentarse a escribir, recordando el motivo de que…

La Vida

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“The young reject the holy, because to accept it means to accept the eventual death of all empiric objects,”

Death

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“The lobby of the Nelson Hotel always smells of the river -- it's in the pores of the place -- but this…

Bad idea

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“Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.”

Anger

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“Worlds which had trembled for a moment in their orbits now steadied, and in one of those worlds, in a desert that…

Roland deschain

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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…

Homesickness

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“I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If…

High school

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“We grew up, he thought. We didn’t think it would happen, not then, not to us. But it did, and if I…

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“She had grown up knowing you cared for the one who had fallen and couldn't get up. She had also grown up…

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Memory is the basis of every journey.

Bases

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“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”

Fear

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“They float, they all float, and when your down here with me, you'll float too.”

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If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

Car

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“All is silent in the halls of the dead. All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead, Behold the stairways…

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“Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.”

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