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After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.


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STEPHEN KING Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, ...
STEPHEN KING Love leaves scars.
STEPHEN KING When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the tim...
STEPHEN KING The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
STEPHEN KING Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.
STEPHEN KING He killed them with their love
STEPHEN KING Home is where they want you to stay longer.
STEPHEN KING For God’s sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thin...
STEPHEN KING He was a poet who sometimes taught Free University classes or travelled in the western states of Uta...
STEPHEN KING She's the Queen Bitch of Castle Hell. If you mess with her, she'll eat you alive.
STEPHEN KING When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invaria...
STEPHEN KING Get busy living or get busy dying.
STEPHEN KING Good books are for consideration after, too.
STEPHEN KING And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?
STEPHEN KING Churchbells were calling the faithful to worship, and outside it was a beautiful day
STEPHEN KING I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let h...
STEPHEN KING I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, a...
STEPHEN KING