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I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my eye.

I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my mind.

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart.


Stephen King

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STEPHEN KING Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.
STEPHEN KING Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.
STEPHEN KING Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, s...
STEPHEN KING Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children,...
STEPHEN KING Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.
STEPHEN KING It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good en...
STEPHEN KING When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
STEPHEN KING Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, ...
STEPHEN KING Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"

He stared at me, baffle...
STEPHEN KING Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic...
STEPHEN KING I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost alw...
STEPHEN KING Without his even being aware that it was happening, Paul's face rearranged itself into the expressio...
STEPHEN KING I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that s...
STEPHEN KING There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the c...
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...
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