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Get busy living or get busy dying.Stephen King
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Am I weird?"" Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.Stephen King
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Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.Stephen King
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Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you..haven't you ever felt that way about music?' Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.' Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.' Red: 'Forget?'Andy: 'Forget that..there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside..that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.' Red: 'What're you talking about?' Andy: 'Hope. .Stephen King
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He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a cage like his own cell. Only instead of holding a man, that cage held a tiger, and that tiger's name was Hope. Williams produced the key that unlocked the cage and the tiger was out, willy-nilly, to roam his brain.Stephen King
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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 to the one coming from inside.Stephen King
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In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.Stephen King
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I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?Stephen King
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There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.Stephen King
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..we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off your walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of two evils and try to keep your good intentions on front of you. And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night..and what your dreams are like.Stephen King
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There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.Stephen King
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... what I'm doing in here isn't all that different from what I was doing outside. I'll hand you a pretty cynical axiom: the amount of financial help an individual or company needs rises in direct proportion to how many people that person or business is screwing.Stephen King