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In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

Running, Men, Years

Stephen King (1996). “Coffey on the Mile”, New Amer Library

Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.

Loyalty, Running, Art

the look of the sky as the day's blue blood runs out of its cheek.

Running, Blue, Blood

Stephen King (1999). “Bag of Bones”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever, like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever.

Running, Brother, Sea

"It". Book by Stephen King, 1986.

Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.

Running, Dog, Paws

Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

Whenever I publish a book, I feel like a trapper caught by the Iroquois. They're all lined up with Tomahawks, and the idea is to run through with your head down, and everybody gets to take a swing. They hit you in the head, the back, the ass, and the balls.

Running, Book, Swings

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

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

Running, Abyss

Stephen King (2016). “The Running Man”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

You know how it's going to end, but instead of spoiling things, that somehow increases your fascination. It's like watching a kid run his electric train faster and faster and waiting for it to derail on one of the curves.

Running, Kids, Curves

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

Running, Book, Fighting

They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.

Running, Rocks, Tree

Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.47, Anchor

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

Letting Go, Running, Way

Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

Running, Daylight, Bleeding

Stephen King (2016). “The Running Man”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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.

Running, Responsibility, Pride

Stephen King (2016). “The Running Man”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

Running, Eye, Snakes

Stephen King (2014). “Big Driver”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?

Running, Needs, Towns

Stephen King (2016). “Thinner”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute mile in the Olympics. It may take a hundred years or a thousand, but it will happen. Because there is no ultimate blue ribbon. There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

Running, Zero, Mean

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands.

Running, Men, Simple

Stephen King (2016). “The Running Man”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.

Running, Letters, Pants

Stephen King (2016). “The Running Man”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening, because they're not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that's a shorthand for all the feelings that they're not ready to deal with yet.

Girl, Running, Hot And Cold

Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it goes back to Dracula, where someone dumps a crucifix in Count Dracula's face, and he pulls away and runs back into his house. That's not religion. That's some kind of juju, like a talisman.

Running, Kryptonite, House

the year she had run fleetly through the dewy grass under the moon- the night of wine, when dreams condensed out of thin air like the nightmilk of fantasy.

Running, Dream, Wine

Stephen King (1990). “The Stand”, Signet Book

A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.

Running, Minorities, Want

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

My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely and set up dope stores the way that there are state-run liquor stores. You could get your Acapulco gold or your whatever it happened to be - your Augusta gold or your Bangor gold. And people would come from all the other states to buy it, and there could be a state tax on it. Then everybody in Maine could have a Cadillac.

Running, Dope, People

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

A scary movie puts a lot of people, a mob, in one place. There are advantages to that because the panic runs through the audience. If it's a good movie, the fear jumps from one person to the next. You can find yourself screaming just because everybody around you is screaming. There's a real atmosphere of terror. It's also visual, which means that you can't look away from this thing - it's happening. You're in the dark. It's like a nightmare. It's like a dream. It's very, very visual. It works on all those levels.

Dream, Running, Real

I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.

Running, Mind, Stories

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

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