“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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“Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.”
― Mindy Kaling, quote from Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
“What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.”
― Thomas Harris, quote from Hannibal
“Dia wrinkled her nose. “Gross. You need a decent girl, one that can straighten you out.”
“I don't need to be straightened out,” Carmine said. “Why drown in love when you can have so much fun swimming in lust?”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Sempre
“When I see her,” I said, “it’s like - I don’t know what it’s like. It’s like I never saw anything at all before. It’s like I am filling up, like a wine-glass when it’s filled with wine. I watch the acts before her and they are like nothing - they’re like dust. Then she walks on the stage and - she is so pretty; and her suit is so nice; and her voice is so sweet… She makes me want to smile and weep, at once. She makes me sore, here.” I placed a hand upon my chest, upon the breast-bone. “I never saw a girl like her before. I never knew that there were girls like her…” My voice became a trembling whisper then, and I found that I could say no more. There was another silence. I opened my eyes and looked at Alice - and knew at once that I shouldn’t have spoken; that I should have been as dumb and as cunning with her as with the rest of them. There was a look on her face - it was not ambiguous at all now - a look of mingled shock, and nervousness, and embarrassment or shame. I had said too much. I felt as if my admiration for Kitty Butler had lit a beacon inside me, and opening my unguarded mouth had sent a shaft of light into the darkened room, illuminating all. I had said too much - but it was that, or say nothing.”
― Sarah Waters, quote from Tipping the Velvet
“For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.”
― Lemony Snicket, quote from The Wide Window
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