Stephen King Quotes - Page 14

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.
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And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.
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She was satisfied with the answer God had given Moses from the burning bush when Moses had seen fit to question. Who are you? Mose asks, and God comes back from that bush just as pert as you like: I Am, Who I AM. In other words, Mose, stop beatin around this here bush and get your old ass in gear.
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Christ.No, not Christ. These leavings were made in propitiation of a much older God than the Christian one. People have called Him different things at different times, but Rachel’s sister gave Him a perfectly good name, I think: Oz the Gweat and Tewwible, God of dead things left in the ground, God of rotting flowers in drainage ditches, God of the Mystery.
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If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.
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It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.
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There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.
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You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?
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never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.
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I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die - I don't want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created-but I believe there has to be something
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He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace which is sometimes such fertile soil ; it's the ground from which our brightest dreams and biggest ideas (both good and spectacularly bad) suddenly burst forth, often full-blown.
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Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
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The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary
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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.
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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!
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You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show.
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Words have weight.
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A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.
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I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.
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But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.
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The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.
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Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.
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This inhuman place makes human monsters.
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Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.
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Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster
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A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.
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I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
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FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.
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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
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That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.
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He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
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Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.
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The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen
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Quiet people have the loudest minds.
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If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
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And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.
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To write is human, to edit is divine.
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Am I weird?""Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.
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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
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Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
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They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?
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I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.
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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.
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In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
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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.
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We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
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I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.
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What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
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We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
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No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
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Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
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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
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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 what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl...
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Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?
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Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him..
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