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Atheism
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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.
-Stephen King
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Authors & Writing
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
-Stephen King
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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy -- and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
-Stephen King
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Change
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No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just... come out the other side. Or you don't.
-Stephen King
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Death
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His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead deck, his the eyes beyond the flames, his the grin from beyond the grave of the world.
-Stephen King
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When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
-Stephen King
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Enemy, Enemies
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Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
-Stephen King
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Growth
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Love didn't grow very well in place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.
-Stephen King
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Heart
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His heart had been broken. And now all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existance was that broken hearts mended.
-Stephen King, Wizard and Glass
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Life
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He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate.
-Stephen King
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Love
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(on love) It's 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.
-Stephen King
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Pain
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Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.
-Stephen King
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Reading
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...reading is the creative center of a writer's life...you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
-Stephen King
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Taxation
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The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
-Stephen King
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Words
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It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.
-Stephen King
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Work
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
-Stephen King
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Books by and about Stephen King