Stephen King: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 21)

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“What is writing? Writing is telepathy.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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