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Stephen King Author
Believe

"How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of the morning, looking up into the absence of light, remembering absent friends. Sometimes in those little hours I think about the horizon. You have to establish the horizon. You have to mark the white. A simple enough act, you might say, but any act that re-makes the world is heroic. Or so I've come to believe."

Believe Simple Morning
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Stephen King Author
Believe

"Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink or believe. Me, I don't believe in God. But if i saw him, I would. I wouldn't just go around saying, "Jesus, that was a great special effect." The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing."

Believe Jesus Guy
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Stephen King Author
Believe

"I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives: the parent who punches instead of kissing, the auto accident that takes a loved one, the cancer we one day discover living in our own bodies. If such terrible occurrences were acts of darkness, they might actually be easier to cope with. But instead of being dark, they have their own terrible brilliance. . . and none shine so bright as the acts of cruelty we sometimes perpetrate in our own families."

Believe Real Cancer
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Stephen King Author
Believe

"I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity."

Believe Book Long
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Stephen King Author
Believe

"If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question."

Men Believe Serious
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Stephen King Author
Believe

"I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to do is provide people with nightmares which are really safe places to put those fears for a while because you can say afterwards that uh, that, that well it was all just make-believe anyway, so I just took my emotions for a walk."

Thinking Believe Writing
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Stephen King Author
Believe

"I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are facing total thermonuclear destruction; and, if you can make someone believe in a ghost or a demon or a vampire in the face of that, you are doing well. From my own personal point of view, I don't think just blood and guts is enough. At least, it isn't for me. Maybe it will turn someone's stomach; but, I'm not sure that is literature or even entertainment."

Thinking Believe Blood
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Stephen King Author
Believe

"I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like to write about the old standard where some rotten guy gets chased by a mean spirit that gets him in the end.I'd rather write about nice people that are menaced from outside by some sort of evil power and who sort of slug it out."

Believe Strong Nice
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Stephen King Author
Believe

"I am religious in the sense that I believe in God and I believe that there is an abiding logical spirit that controls what goes on to a certain extent."

Believe Religious Abiding
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Stephen King Author
Believe

"As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens."

Believe Light Simple
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Stephen King Author
Believe

"As we get older, our fears, in some way, sharpen and become more personal, because we can no longer - let's say take a book like "It" or maybe "Christine," and say these are make-believe fears."

Believe Book Way
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Robert Winston Physicist and Science Communicator
Believe

"I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent."

Believe Children Eggs
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Robert Winston Physicist and Science Communicator
Believe

"The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since Sigmund Freud, many people have associated religiosity with neurosis and mental illness."

People Believe Neurosis
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Robin Sharma Author, Speaker
Believe

"I promise you this: at the end of your days, you will discover that the things you now perceive to be the big things in your life will be seen as little things, and all those things that you now believe to be the little things, you will realize were really the big things."

Believe Littles Promise
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Robin Wright Actress, Director, Producer
Believe

"It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part"

Believe Reading Fate
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