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Stephen King Quotes - Page 29

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Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?

Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?

Dad, Chicks, Chum

FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 24, 2013

Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

Work, Cutting, Successful

Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working.

Long, Trying, Sun

"Stephen King, Marriage Counselor? Yes... If Your Lover's a Psycho Killer". Interview with Jonathan Lees, www.complex.com. October 3, 2014.

You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all.

Path, Steps, Fantastic

Stephen King (2017). “It: A Novel”, p.458, Simon and Schuster

I drink a lot of beer, and that's the drug of choice. You find the drug that works for you. I know, for instance, this guy named Harlan Ellison - and he's not alone - who's very proud of the fact that he doesn't put dope into his body. He tries not to put additives into his body, or anything like that. But he can afford to do that because Harlan's drug of choice is Harlan.

Beer, Dope, Choices

Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

I'd like to take a motorcycle trip across Europe, maybe even across China. Of course I'd also like to broker a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but it's important to put ceilings on one's ambitions.

Ambition, Agreement, Europe

Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority, to show we weren't weak. Isn't that what Nixon kept saying? "We have to show the world that we're not weak." So of course what we ended up showing the world was that we were, yep, weak. 'Cause we couldn't beat these kids in black pajamas.

Kids, Thinking, Civilization

In these silences something may rise

Silence, May

Stephen King (2016). “Desperation”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives

Taken, Heart, Way

Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.

Want, Cease

Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me.

Ideas, Scary, Forever

Source: www.npr.org

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

Real, Happy Endings, Neat

He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth of this bed, filled with their peaceful heat under two quilts, and wishing it could be like this forever.

Quilts, Dark, Thinking

Stephen King (2016). “The Tommyknockers”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.

Temper, Ifs

Stephen King (2013). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.385, Simon and Schuster

I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

Dream, Journey, Men

"Fictional character: Red". "The Shawshank Redemption", www.imdb.com. 1994.

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

Memories, Identity, Persons

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.442, Simon and Schuster

The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically I don't think I was so different from a lot of dads who have three or four martinis when they get in from work, wine with dinner and so on.

Dad, Drinking, Kids

"Part two of the full Stephen King interview". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

I don't have anything against either of the Dead movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, none of those movies. If it scares somebody, I think that it is serving a valid purpose. It is doing what the filmmaker intended. But, it is not something that you hand to kids.

Kids, Thinking, Texas

Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read a lot of Ross Macdonald and Raymond Chandler, so I wrote like those guys. But, little by little, you develop your own style.

Teenager, Guy, Style

"Stephen King wants to reach out and grab you — with his writing". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2016.

I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about.

Thinking, Uncomfortable

Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.

Hurt, Light, Shining

"The Shining". Book by Stephen King, 1977.

This is a dreadful thing to say, but I have wondered in my darker hours that, if everything were legal, wouldn't it be kind of a Darwinian solution to a lot of problems? Who are the bikies that you see who are cruisin' around with no helmet or with a hat turned around like that yoyo in Cheap Trick? They're dummies, and if they splatter their brains all over the sidewalk, they're not going to be collecting food stamps.

Brain, Be Kind, Hats

Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more good than they do evil. Hell, we've had nuclear weapons now for thirty or thirty-five years and nothing's happened yet. That in itself seems to be a miracle. If Reagan pushes the button or somebody pushes the button in Russia or somebody pushes it in Costa Rica, they can put a big tombstone in outer space that says, "We gave it a good try." Because we have.

Tombstone, Years, Space

High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

I do believe that when we're in the process of dying, that all these emergency circuits in the brain take over. I base what I'm saying not on any empirical evidence. I think it's very possible that when you're dying, these circuits open up, which would explain this whole white-light phenomena - when people clinically die and they see their relatives and stuff and say, "Hello, it's great to see you."

Believe, Thinking, Light

Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little comfortable suburban house in Michigan, looking at CNN and saying, "Oh, those poor immigrant children that are all coming across the border. But we really can't have them here - that isn't what God wants. Let's send them all back to the drug cartels." There's a complacency to it.

Children, Nice, Mean

Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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