"There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time."
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"Each life makes its own immitation of immortality."
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"I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read"
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"The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted."
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"Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out."
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"The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies."
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"I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils."
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"You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.'"
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"All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand Constant Reader and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of."
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"The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood."
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"On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew."
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"Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up."
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"And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside."
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"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."
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"You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination."
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"When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too."
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"When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope."
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"I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get along in the great karma of life."
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"Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there’s so much worth saving."
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"That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess."
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