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I want to tell her that the only thing you get from walling yourself in is empty.


A.S. King

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FLORENCE KING To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexand...
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FLORENCE KING Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
FLORENCE KING He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
FLORENCE KING People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right...
FLORENCE KING True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
FLORENCE KING We're often blinded by romance; we decide to not see things we don't want to see, and put up...
GEORGIA KING Sometimes you have to listen to a CD over and over before you really get it, but as soon as I heard ...
GAYLE KING Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
LARRY KING If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...re...
STEPHEN KING Western civilization is the most successful civilization the world has ever seen. And some of the re...
STEVE KING And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're i...
STEPHEN KING Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
STEPHEN KING We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not mak...
KING HUSSEIN Maman told me that every time you smile, a very tiny bit of the smile stays stuck to your face, so a...
CLAIRE KING He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a ...
STEPHEN KING After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed ...
STEPHEN KING (on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always se...
STEPHEN KING People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the...
STEPHEN KING I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredien...
GAYLE KING Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: p...
FLORENCE KING When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
STEPHEN KING His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead dec...
STEPHEN KING Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
FLORENCE KING The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.
B.B. KING The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
STEPHEN KING If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t...
STEPHEN KING Books are a uniquely portable magic.
STEPHEN KING It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.
STEPHEN KING When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and ye...
STEPHEN KING Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the e...
STEPHEN KING We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy...
FLORENCE KING Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that...
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