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“Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.”

Stephen King book Different Seasons

Source: Different Seasons

“It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

“Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.”

“Life turns on a dime.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

“Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because theare funny but because your ownis funny.”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

“Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.”

Stephen King book Wizard and Glass

Source: Wizard and Glass

“A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures…”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood…”

Stephen King book Carrie

Source: Carrie

“Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Source: The Gunslinger

“Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.”

Stephen King book Under the Dome

Source: Under the Dome

“I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?”

Stephen King book Guns

Source: Guns

“What is writing? Writing is telepathy.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.”

Time (October 6, 1986)

“What you buy is what you own, and sooner or later what you own will come back to you.”

Stephen King book It

Pet Sematary (1983)
Source: It

“Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand (1978), p. 1085

“A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees.”

Stephen King book Finders Keepers

Source: Finders Keepers

“A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile