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Stephen King, a master of horror and suspense, has captivated readers with his vivid imagination and compelling storytelling. His quotes reflect his insights on creativity, perseverance, and the human experience, often with a touch of dark humor. Together, they offer inspiration, wisdom, and a glimpse into the mind of one of the most prolific and influential writers of our time.
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their respect for the mystery--the half-grasped but never spoken idea that maybe, when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there is no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. That was the mystery.
From Pet Sematary
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Life is more than just steering a course around pain.
From Desperation
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Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't think I can do that. I'm not tired -not really tired- yet. But I will be." The scar stood out on the side of his haggard face as he looked ahead into the darkness "And I think... when I get tired enough... I think I'll just sit down
From The Long Walk
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You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.
From The Dark Half
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"Am I weird?"
"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."
From The Body
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The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.
From Doctor Sleep
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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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She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.
From The Stand
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A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.
From On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.
From The Dark Tower
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
From Different Seasons
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We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
From Duma Key
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Sometimes dead is better
From Pet Sematary
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We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
From Danse Macabre
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The monster nevers dies.
From Cujo
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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.
From Full Dark, No Stars
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He held her and rocked her, believing, rightly or wrongly, that Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument or to a little girl’s tears; that she wept over its cruel unpredictability; and that she wept because of the human being’s wonderful, deadly ability to translate symbols into conclusions that were either fine and noble or blackly terrifying. If all those animals had died and been buried, then Church could die
(any time!)
and be buried; and if that could happen to Church, it could happen to her mother, her father, her baby brother. To herself. Death was a vague idea; the Pet Sematary was real. In the texture of those rude markers were truths which even a child’s hands could feel.
From Pet Sematary
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We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.
From The Dead Zone
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I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on.
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Eighty percent of success is just showing up.
From Mr. Mercedes
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Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.
From The Gunslinger
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Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.
From It
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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.
From Different Seasons
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Love don't die with the earthly body, son. It's a purely ridiculous notion.
From The Institute
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their respect for the mystery--the half-grasped but never spoken idea that maybe, when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there is no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. That was the mystery.
From Pet Sematary
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Life is more than just steering a course around pain.
From Desperation
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Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't think I can do that. I'm not tired -not really tired- yet. But I will be." The scar stood out on the side of his haggard face as he looked ahead into the darkness "And I think... when I get tired enough... I think I'll just sit down
From The Long Walk
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You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.
From The Dark Half
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"Am I weird?"
"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."
From The Body
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The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.
From Doctor Sleep
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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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She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.
From The Stand
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A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.
From On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.
From The Dark Tower
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
From Different Seasons
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We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
From Duma Key
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Sometimes dead is better
From Pet Sematary
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We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
From Danse Macabre
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The monster nevers dies.
From Cujo
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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.
From Full Dark, No Stars
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He held her and rocked her, believing, rightly or wrongly, that Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument or to a little girl’s tears; that she wept over its cruel unpredictability; and that she wept because of the human being’s wonderful, deadly ability to translate symbols into conclusions that were either fine and noble or blackly terrifying. If all those animals had died and been buried, then Church could die
(any time!)
and be buried; and if that could happen to Church, it could happen to her mother, her father, her baby brother. To herself. Death was a vague idea; the Pet Sematary was real. In the texture of those rude markers were truths which even a child’s hands could feel.
From Pet Sematary
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We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.
From The Dead Zone
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I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on.
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Eighty percent of success is just showing up.
From Mr. Mercedes
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Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.
From The Gunslinger
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Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.
From It
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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.
From Different Seasons
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Love don't die with the earthly body, son. It's a purely ridiculous notion.
From The Institute
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their respect for the mystery--the half-grasped but never spoken idea that maybe, when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there is no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. That was the mystery.
From Pet Sematary
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Life is more than just steering a course around pain.
From Desperation
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Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't think I can do that. I'm not tired -not really tired- yet. But I will be." The scar stood out on the side of his haggard face as he looked ahead into the darkness "And I think... when I get tired enough... I think I'll just sit down
From The Long Walk
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You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.
From The Dark Half
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"Am I weird?"
"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."
From The Body
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The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.
From Doctor Sleep
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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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She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.
From The Stand
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A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.
From On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.
From The Dark Tower
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
From Different Seasons
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We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
From Duma Key
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Sometimes dead is better
From Pet Sematary
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We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
From Danse Macabre
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The monster nevers dies.
From Cujo
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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.
From Full Dark, No Stars
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He held her and rocked her, believing, rightly or wrongly, that Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument or to a little girl’s tears; that she wept over its cruel unpredictability; and that she wept because of the human being’s wonderful, deadly ability to translate symbols into conclusions that were either fine and noble or blackly terrifying. If all those animals had died and been buried, then Church could die
(any time!)
and be buried; and if that could happen to Church, it could happen to her mother, her father, her baby brother. To herself. Death was a vague idea; the Pet Sematary was real. In the texture of those rude markers were truths which even a child’s hands could feel.
From Pet Sematary
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We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.
From The Dead Zone
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I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on.
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Eighty percent of success is just showing up.
From Mr. Mercedes
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Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.
From The Gunslinger
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Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.
From It
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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.
From Different Seasons
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Love don't die with the earthly body, son. It's a purely ridiculous notion.
From The Institute
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