Stephen King Quotes - Page 12

• I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Believe, Magic

  Stephen King (2016). “Night Journey”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!

  Stephen King

  Red, Magenta

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.580, Simon and Schuster

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• For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.

  Stephen King

  Sweat, Bed, Comfort

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• Writing is seduction.

  Stephen King

  Kings, Writing, Seduction

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

  Stephen King

  Dream, Halloween, Thinking

  "The Mist". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

  Stephen King

  Fall, What If, Dark Tower

  Stephen King (2012). “The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Love Is, Men, Thinking

  Stephen King (1999). “Bag Of Bones: A Novel”, p.583, Simon and Schuster

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• Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

  Stephen King

  Men, Thinking, Self

  Stephen King (2013). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

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• Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

  Stephen King

  Stories, Description, Reader

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

  Stephen King

  Together, May, Reason

  Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

  Stephen King

  Relief, Tongue

  Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.722, Simon and Schuster

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• But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

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  Life, Giving Up, Men

  Stephen King (2016). “Thinner”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things in departments and you go ahead. You go on and plan for the future and assume that the future's going to work out okay. Yet we know that sooner or later we're all going to be eating worms, whether it's fifty years or sixty. It might be tomorrow. It might happen today.

  Stephen King

  Crazy, Years, Work Out

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• 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 all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel. Their other use-their only other use-is to kill people.

  Stephen King

  Fire, Two, People

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• Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything.

  Stephen King

  Stars, Moon, Sky

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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• Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

  Stephen King

  Regret, Feelings, Guilt

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.

  Stephen King

  Hurt, Pain, Tyrants

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.

  Stephen King

  Grief, Blunt, Edges

  Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Fall, Eye

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.445, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Paper, Needs

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

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  Paintbrush, Draws, Knows

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

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• and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

  Stephen King

  Heart, Years, Broken

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.

  Stephen King

  Left Behind, Ill, Sooner Or Later

  Stephen King (2016). “Insomnia”, p.662, Simon and Schuster

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• The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

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  Religious, Atheist, Religion

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• You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Journey, Goal

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.817, Simon and Schuster

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