100 Quotes About Stephen King

Stephen King is one of the most prolific authors in the world. His works have spanned decades, selling millions of copies across the globe. But he’s also a talented wordsmith, and his use of language can be very poetic. For example, this quote below is about finding your own path in life.

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your...
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If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone Stephen King
Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake...
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Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is. Stephen King
Am I weird?
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Am I weird?"" Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird. Stephen King
FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.
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FEAR stands for fuck everything and run. Stephen King
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Why does she have to be such a...such a..."" Go on, " I said. "The truth is never cussing, Son.""Such a bitch! Stephen King
Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness,...
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Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two. Stephen King
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At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of him on the Drop, riding Rusher flat out with his black hair flying back from his temples and his neckerchief rippling; to see him laughing with an ease and freedom he would never find again in the long life which stretched out for him beyond hers, and it was his laughter she took with her as she went out, fleeing the light and heat in to the silkly, consoling dark, calling to him over and over as she went, calling bird and bear and hare and fish. Stephen King
There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death,...
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There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart. Stephen King
Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you...
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Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back. Stephen King
He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as...
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He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly. Stephen King
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I believe the first draft of a book – even a long one – should take no more than three months… Any longer and – for me, at least – the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity. Stephen King
In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And...
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In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all. Stephen King
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If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The question had never even occurred to him. He had no friends, but he had his books and his dreams... Stephen King
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are...
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Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. Stephen King
Your hair is winter fire, January embers. My heart burns...
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Your hair is winter fire, January embers. My heart burns there, too.- Stephen King, IT Stephen King
Dreams are a simple psychological emetic, and people who have...
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Dreams are a simple psychological emetic, and people who have them are more blessed than cursed Stephen King
I just met Stephen King in my dreams... I just...
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I just met Stephen King in my dreams... I just said what I have watched and read from his books... Mainly I received a hug from him, it was like we are friends from long time. Deyth Banger
I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?
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I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present. Stephen King
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Sometimes you want to change the past by going from the future in the past. But sometimes you find that everything which you have done, it's not better but it becomes worst but why?(11.22.63 - Better Check it out! ) Deyth Banger
Isn't bravery always sort of beautiful?
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Isn't bravery always sort of beautiful? Stephen King
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Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar. Art consists of the persistence of memory. Stephen King
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Shall I tell you what sociology teaches us about the human race? I’ll give it to you in a nutshell. Show me a man or woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll invent the charming thing we call “society”. Give me four and they’ll build a pyramid. Give me five and they’ll make one an outcast. Give me six and they’ll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they’ll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home. Stephen King
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Fifty yards ahead of us, a doe had come out of the woods. She stepped delicately over one rusty GS&WM track and onto the railbed, where the weeds and goldenrod were so high they brushed against her sides. She paused there, looking at us calmly, ears cocked forward. What I remember about that moment was the silence. No bird sang, no plane went droning overhead. If my mother had been with us, she'd have had her camera and would have been taking pictures like mad. Thinking of that made me miss her in a way I hadn't in years. . Stephen King
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It's worked! Our marriage has outlasted all of the world leaders, except for Castro. And if we keep talking, arguing, making love and dancing to the Ramones- it'll probably keep working. Stephen King
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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.― Stephen King, The Shining Stephen King
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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows Stephen King
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The exhausted mind is obsession's easiest prey. Stephen King
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[L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain. Stephen King
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In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day. Neil Gaiman
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If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one—probably a child—who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home. Stephen King
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Great literature is literature that speaks to deep, fundamental human truths and experience in a way that is relatable to the reader and that may provoke engagement or facilitate insight into these truths and experiences. If these truths and experiences are about breaches of the normal, then surely horror has a place in literature, and in facts may proffer deep engagement with the most profound aspects of our existence. Sometimes only horror can say what needs to be said. Jacob M. Held
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Stephen King once wrote, “Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there’s little fun to be had in explanations; they’re antithetical to the poetry of fear.” In a horror story, the victim keeps asking why - but there can be no explanation, and there shouldn’t be one. The unanswered mystery is what stays with us the longest, and it’s what we’ll remember in the end. Alan Wake
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...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling–over trick for you not once or twice but all night. Stephen King
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Get busy living or get busy dying.Ӊۥ Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption Stephen King
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I'm not asking you to come reverently or unquestioningly; I'm not asking you to be politically correct or cast aside your sense of humor (please God you have one). This isn't a popularity contest, it's not the moral Olympics, and it's not church. But it's Writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe. Stephen King
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Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win. Stephen King
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I heard that Stephen King doesn't sleep well,. .. so I gues that he doesn't sleep well from his imagination. If I had the same imagination I won't sleep too! Deyth Banger
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What are the differences between me and you, I stand up and continue you just stay down and don't move and you think that nobody will touch. But when you are down, you always easy to be attacked - You will find down "IT" :D :D Deyth Banger
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Memory is the basis of every journey. Stephen King
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Some things you never forgot. She had come to believe that the very things the practical world dismissed as ephemera–things like songs and moonlight and kisses–were sometimes the things that lasted the longest. They might be foolish, but they defied forgetting. And that was good. That was good. Stephen King
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Driving a desk was sometimes lonely, but Eddie had been in the drivers'-seat himself more than once, his aspirator riding there with him on the dashboard, its trigger reflected ghostly in the windshield (and a bucket-load of pills in the glove compartment), and he knew that real loneliness was a smeary red: the color of the taillights of the car ahead of you reflected on wet hottop in a driving rain. Stephen King
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Stephen King is a powerful guy, will powerful vocabulary. Deyth Banger
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Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present. Stephen King
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Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome. Stephen King
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I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity. In both fiction and non-fiction, there's only one question and one answer. 'What happened?' the reader asks. 'This is what happened, ' the writer responds. 'This...and this...and this, too.' Keep it simple. It's the only sure way home. Stephen King
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When you write a story you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story. Stephen King
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James Altucher reminds me for Stephen King... when is about Stephen King his 2 sons, probably the one or no, no both they look like him. Deyth Banger
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The truth is that most writers are needy. Stephen King
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You can see the evil, the evil is everywhere. As Far as I can tell I can build a town full of horror. Deyth Banger
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Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly. Stephen King
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He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again. Stephen King
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Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up Stephen King
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Stop now before i kill youa word to the wise from your friend P E N N Y W I S E Stephen King
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It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive. Stephen King
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Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written. 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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Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed. Stephen King
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I'm sure that the book is incrediable, phenomenal and so on and so on going in positive direction.. But the film wasn't made well (I'm talking about NeedFul Things by Stephen King), the effects weren't good, some scenes were missed, for example I'm very curiouis how does the guy kills his wife with the harmer.. The scene reminds me for Shining, but Unfortunately in the Shining there were more possibilities to be saw this scene, than in this film.. If some disadvantages will be fixed, then I'm sure that the film will be pretty interesting, however to don't forget about the quality!. Deyth Banger
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I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were? Stephen King
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Moonlight flooded in the windows and silvered the room, turning it into a lagoon of dreams Stephen King
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Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye Stephen King
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You know, when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living in someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up, and our hearts break in two." Ted Brautigan, Hearts in Atlantis Deyth Banger
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The man in black travels with your soul in his pocket. Stephen King
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They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food. Stephen King
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They were close to the end of the beginning .. . Stephen King
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The book which I read by Stephen Hand, Freedy VS Jason, was incrediable. I also check out and the book Zodiac, again an incrediable story. The Stand by Stephen King was again on incrediable story, a long book and film, but incrediable! Theory of Everything where it put it me I still can't believe, it was unique story, I had chance to see who is Stephen Hawking really! Deyth Banger
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Some memories were all right, but others were dangerous. Stephen King
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I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss. Stephen King
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I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character story; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss. Stephen King
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It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough. Stephen King
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Goo can't be return from dead person, revive him and you will see an evil thing. WHich isn't really that the person... (Pet Semetary 1 by Stephen King) Deyth Banger
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If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit Stephen King
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1408 Film by Stephen King freak me out, the story also freak me out. But watching the film how is made, how much reverses were shown just terrified me. The ending was suprising! Deyth Banger
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Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt. Stephen King
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Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed! Deyth Banger
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Paths cross all the time in this world of ours, sometimes in the strangest places- Charles Jacobs Stephen King
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The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe. Stephen King
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No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced by one like it that is much nicer. Stephen King
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Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought. Stephen King
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The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan. Stephen King
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Go then, there are other worlds than these. Stephen King
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Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best. Stephen King
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Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally. Stephen King
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All people said to genius people which now are famous. "That's a bad idea", "Wow you must be an idiot to do that", "How can you devastate your talant with this comics and writting this??". But look now Stephen King (About the comics and the writting in his book "Writting Memoir and Craft he said that the teacher behaved with him like this way).. About the others, this are other people which this days are famous. . Deyth Banger
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Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat Stephen King
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When everything is at its worst, your mind just throws it all into the wastebasket and goes to Florida for a little while. There is a sudden electric what-the-hell glow as you stand there looking back over your shoulder at the bridge you just burnt down. Richard Bachman
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You lost your son, but reality he is alive, my father I lost him I know on 99% he is dead if this is faken okay, I will know that he is alive, but who knows?? I haven't met him after I lost him, you met your son didn't you?? And then you lost him, it sounds fair does it?? (Storm Of The Century by Stephen King) Deyth Banger
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Stephen King have a lot of books about the writing not only "The Writting: Memoir and Craft", but and "Nightmares and Dreamscapes", however "Misery", also and "Bag of Bones" and even and others. Which is awesome, different perspectives for being a an writer. Deyth Banger
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I can't get why people are afraid of books or films which are horror. What's the scary of the film "Cube 1, 2, 3" - Yeah it was brutal I get scary, but after an hour I'm fine. I just continue to live my life. I check out "Saw", the most brutal film ever watched, yeah I could have some kind a bad thoughts and other stuff about the film. Like to think that this guy "Saw", is there with the bike, but after few days everything it went on the right path. I had chance to see what is the real face of the killers - "Saw" and what does goverment do "Cube"! GreenMile was a sad story, I still can't believe that Stephen King has written it! . Deyth Banger
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Rings and magazines; keychains and umbrellas; hats and glasses; rattles and radios. They looked like different things, but Ralph thought they were really all the same thing: the faint, sorrowing voices of people who had found themselves written out of the script in the middle of the second act while they were still learning their lines for the third, people who had been unceremoniously hauled off before their work was done or their obligations fulfilled, people whose only crime had been to be born in the Random.. and to have caught the eye of the madman with the rusty scalpel. Stephen King
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Not everyone believes in ghost’s, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?“ She had shaken her head slowly. "Men and women who can’t get over the past, ” Aunt Evie said. “That’s what ghost’s are. Not them.” She flapped her arm toward the coffin which stood on its bands beside the coincidentally fresh grave. “The dead are dead. We bury them, and buried they stay. Stephen King
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There is a muse, but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter or computer station. He lives in the ground. He’s a basement guy. You have to descend to his level, and once you get down there you have to furnish an apartment for him to live in. You have to do all the grunt labor, in other words, while the muse sits and smokes cigars and admires his bowling trophies and pretends to ignore you. Stephen King
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If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check out the killing... That's insane! Deyth Banger
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I just predicted whose son will be taken in Storm of Century By Stephen King it was Ralph Emerick 'Ralphie' Anderson. Isn't it interesting that I gues who will be taken?? Deyth Banger
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…but I guess you can never wash anything completely away, not from this dark glass of a world, and now I saw them again, a tangle of names overlying one another, and looking at them was like listening to the dead speak and sing and cry out for mercy. Stephen King
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Allie sighed. It was an old yellow sound, like turning pages. Stephen King
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Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-ha Richard Bachman
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He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity’s engine. Stephen King
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When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing. Stephen King
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So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then. Stephen King