“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. ”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Art should be a place of hope.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“That's clear about the end of my other life, how I kept saying 'I can do this' even when I knew I couldn't, even when I knew I was fucked, I was dead ass fucked in the pouring rain. ”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Monday.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose I had. On some level, unless we're mad, I think most of us know the various voices of our own imaginations.
And of our memories, of course. They have voices, too. Ask anyone who has ever lost a limb or a child or a long-cherished dream. Ask anyone who blames himself for a bad decision, usually made in a raw instant (an instant that is most commonly red). Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“If you want to play, you gotta pay.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“The truth is in the details.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“I win, you win. You win, I win. The gun, I win. The fruit, you win. I win, you win.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Make-up covers a multitude of sins.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Successful rebellions always begin in secret.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“I just didn't want her to get hurt. I thought she was going to be. But everyone gets their share, don't they? Sure. Pow, in the nose. Pow, in the eye. Pow, below the belt, down you go, and the ref just went out for a hot dog.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“In the end, we wear out our worries.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“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.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“You got style, you got class, you got the lips to kiss my ass.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Do the day and let the day do you.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Stay hungry. It worked for Michelangelo, it worked for Picasso, and it works for a hundred thousand artists who do it not for love (although that might play a part) but in order to put food on the table. If you want to translate the world, you need to use your appetites. Does this surprise you? It shouldn’t. There’s no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Are you still forgetting things?" "I don't know, I can't remember," I said.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
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“Look, wolf boy, he’s gone. He came by, borrowed money,” she snorted, “took money—it’s not like I’ll ever see it again—and headed out. Told me that the Pack was looking for him, wanting to kill him.
Even if I knew where he ran to, which I
don’t, I certainly wouldn’t tell someone out to hurt him.”
― Lauren Dane, quote from Enforcer
“No, I be-ant expectin' nothin', but I be so yarnin”
― Flora Thompson, quote from Lark Rise to Candleford
“an easy chair for Lucas. Lucas took it, gave them a quick summary of the Jones case, including the recovery of the girls’ bodies, and recited the details, as he remembered them, of the descriptions he’d accumulated on the man who’d called himself John Fell. “Fairly big guy, but”
― John Sandford, quote from Buried Prey
“Kurt left in the early morning to walk around Aberdeen in the pale light of dawn. The storm had passed, birds were chirping, and everything in the world seemed more alive. He walked around for hours thinking about it all, waiting for school to begin, watching the sun come up, wondering where his life was heading.”
― Charles R. Cross, quote from Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
“Ah, Robert?”
“Shhhh, not while I’m praying,” he said, momentarily losing his place before he started again, “thank you for letting us survive that trip from hell. Thank you for ignoring my prayers for a quick death when I didn’t think that I’d be able to survive another day of starvation,” he said, making her roll her eyes in annoyance.
“You were given three full meals a day just like everyone else,” she pointed out, not bothering to mention the fact that, on most days, he’d received second helpings. She sat down on a bench near their luggage, wondering just how much longer he was going to keep this up.
“I’m sorry for all the cursing that my wife forced me to do while I was on that boat,” he continued, ignoring her even as he amused her. “As you know, she’s been such a bad influence on me. Thank you for pulling me from near death and somehow giving me the strength to survive.”
“Near death?” she asked, frowning. “When were you near death?”
“When was I near death?” he asked in stunned disbelief as he opened his eyes so that he could glare at her.
“How could you forget all those times that I could barely move? When I struggled to find the will to live so that I wouldn’t leave you a young widow? Did my struggle for survival mean nothing to you?” he demanded in outrage, terrifying the people that were forced to walk past him to get to the docks and making her wrack her brain as she struggled to figure out what he was talking about.
“Do you mean those few times when you had a touch of seasickness?” she asked, unable to think of anything else that he could be talking about since he’d been the picture of health during the majority of the trip.
“A touch?” he repeated in disbelief. “I nearly died!”
― R.L. Mathewson, quote from Truce
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