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He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?


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ROB REINER Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
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If you died I would want to die too.
So you could be with me?...
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GERALD KERSH 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
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ASSEGID HABTEWOLD You can do anything that you wanna do, but uh-uh, don't step on my cowboy boots.
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ANDREA ZLAVIS …penny for your thoughts?” Gabe says as he sits down beside me on the cot, and joins me in watch...
AMY LUNDERMAN I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humil...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. He would take a pencil and the pencil would move and start to work by itself. It's a funny thing to ...
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DEYTH BANGER He just said he was so sorry that he had that on his record. He just wanted to clear his record befo...
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1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
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DEYTH BANGER If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about.
SHARON DELAROSE I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t...
ALAN J. HEEGER Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
MICKEY SPILLANE The day you will provide a family with groceries might be the beginning of a new life for that famil...
DOUGLAS YEBOAH My angel, - his name is Freedom,
Choose him to be your king;
He shall cut pathways east and w...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON You lost your son, but reality he is alive, my father I lost him I know on 99% he is dead if this is...
DEYTH BANGER Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains ...
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January embers
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He stared at me, baffle...
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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