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One Quotes by Stephen King
- But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays…
- No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and…
- One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I wrote her a…
- Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth…
- Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot…
- The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your…
- But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here.…
- I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel…
- The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.
- Semi-automatic s have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in a while, yell yeehaw, and get…
- A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around…
- He needs to be corrected, if you don't mind me saying so. He needs a good talking-to, and perhaps a bit more. My own girls,…
- Busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.
- Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from…
- Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters…
- The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in…
- Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't…
- And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of town banging away…
- There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.
- It's "Merry Christmas" at our house. Whatever it is at yours, have a happy one. And be good to somebody.
- Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
- It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
- When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
- It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome…
- No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle