Stephen King Quotes

The Dark Powers have to give before they can take.

Stephen King

Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way.

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He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.

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They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

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He felt more crypts cracking open inside of him; the stench he smelled was not decayed bodies but decayed memories, and that was somehow worse.

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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

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Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a coincidence is just a coincidence.

Stephen King

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

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Dreams are a simple psychological emetic, and people who have them are more blessed than cursed

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The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

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Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

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