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For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.Stephen King
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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.Stephen King
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I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.Stephen King
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A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.Stephen King
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Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.Stephen King
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I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.Stephen King
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The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.Stephen King
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I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.Stephen King
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I suspect that fright, like pain, is one of those things that slip our minds once they have passed. What I do remember is a feeling I'd had before when I was down here, especially when I was walking this road by myself. It was a sense that reality is thin. I think it is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves. .Stephen King
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When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-Stephen King
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Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.Stephen King
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Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.Stephen King
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Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight.Stephen King
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Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.Stephen King
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I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.Stephen King
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Be sure your sin will find you out... Be sure.Stephen King
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And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was.Stephen King
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When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs-Stephen King
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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. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there.Stephen King
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There was a madness in my story, but it was a madness I understood.Stephen King
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So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.Stephen King
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Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.Stephen King