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“You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.”

Stephen King book Doctor Sleep

Source: Doctor Sleep

“There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

“We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.”

Stephen King book Cujo

Source: Cujo

“Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.”

Stephen King book The Shining

Source: The Shining (1977)

“It's best to be ruthless with the past.”

Stephen King book Rose Madder

Source: Rose Madder

“Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?

She had shaken her head slowly.

Men and women who can't get over their past… That's what ghosts are.”

Stephen King book Needful Things

Source: Needful Things

“The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.”

Stephen King book 'Salem's Lot

Source: 'Salem's Lot

“Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.”

Stephen King book 'Salem's Lot

Source: 'Salem's Lot

“Ka was like a wheel, its one purpose to turn, and in the end it always came back to the place where it had started.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands

Source: The Waste Lands

“I don’t want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead)…”

Stephen King

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Be true, be brave, stand
All the rest is darkness.”

Stephen King

“Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Source: The Drawing of the Three

“Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

“Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.”

Stephen King

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.”

Stephen King book Misery

Source: Misery

“Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Variant: Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.
Source: The Green Mile

“Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Source: The Gunslinger

“Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”

Stephen King

Page 457.
Everything's Eventual (2002), "Luckey Quarter"

“He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.”

Stephen King The Running Man

Source: The Running Man