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ANNE RICE I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
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P. J. SOLES Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
DANA STABENOW It's a great feeling to put it together all at once. We've struggled to reach our full potential and...
KRISTEN FLETCHER Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says th...
MICHAEL KORYTA The sun kept dipping down into the ocean and the lights came on at the harbor, casting sudden shadow...
ADI ALSAID Toby was right. Finn was my first love. But Toby, he was my second. And the sadness in that stretche...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.
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MARKEE MARTIN In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a K...
BORIS SPASSKY Am I weird?"

"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.
STEPHEN KING As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware...
CHARLES SPURGEON I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin ...
J.K. ROWLING Stephen King is a powerful guy, will powerful vocabulary.
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DEYTH BANGER I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.
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JAKE DELHOMME (..)-Dr. G. would later say that the whole "my whole life flashed before me" phenomenon at the end i...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains ...
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CAMILLE PAGLIA Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge That no king can corrupt.
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JEFF HAWK Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic th...
WILLIAM H. MACY Billy played well. He got into foul trouble in the second quarter. He got two fouls in the second so...
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GREG MARTIN Our shots would not go down and we were down by 10 at the half. In the second half, they were too mu...
HAROLD CHITWOOD Can it get any closer? And they miss forcing us into a second overtime by .1 of a second.
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GEORGE FOX If there is a question at some point as to whether the industry should be held responsible for flood...
LORETTA WORTERS They let the team down, they let us down. There is no way that team beats us with James and Jihad.
DEVON DOWNEY That building has been torn down now, but the order began meeting in a second building in 1913 above...
MARVIN IMEL Stephen King couldn't come up with a monster worse than this guy,
STEVE RELFORD Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.
RANATA SUZUKI We started out slow on offense, but I thought our defense held us in. It could have been a 20-point ...
DAN WATERMAN A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
SIR BARNETT COCKS A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
BARNETT COCKS It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been g...
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ROB REINER I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Ma...
MICHAEL GOVE It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own wor...
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ROBERT J. SHILLER LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affe...
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CLIVE CUSSLER I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.
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Stephen King interviews and speeches are incrediable very powerful.
DEYTH BANGER I was really happy with the way we responded in the second half. I was pleased with our free throw s...
FLAVA SIRK People go on about places like Starbucks being unpersonal and all that, but what if that's what you ...
NICK HORNBY I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
TRACY CHAPMAN He didn't find any vascular rupture.
DEBORAH RADISCH It occurred to us as operations were winding down in that fire that it was the second time. We looke...
FIREFIGHTER MICHAEL DODA All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, / Tell ye the...
BIBLE Any time you lose a Gold Glove, that's a hit. But that allowed us to make that trade. We saw Hill pl...
JOHN GIBBONS Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
WERNER HERZOG God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
STEPHEN KING So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside l...
STEPHEN KING I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.
STEPHEN KING The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
STEPHEN KING There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
BIBLE I chased him down the holler and tried to catch him. His leg was hanging by a thin piece of skin.
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RICK RIORDAN I don't think there was any doubt at all. We were probably a little nervous when we were down by abo...
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JEFF WACHTEL Here I came to the very edge
where nothing at all needs saying,
everything is absorbed t...
PABLO NERUDA I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL At the end, there was an audible intake of breath. They realized this is a cut above.
KATIE GARDNER Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Your hair is winter fire,
January embers.
My heart burns there, too.
-Stephen King, I...
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CHRIS STRATHMAN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW I was informed that there were 173 detainees held at an Interior Ministry prison and they appear to ...
IBRAHIM JAAFARI Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
IRA SACHS Pet Sematary 1 is one crazy story and film.
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STEPHEN KING Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule...
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STEPHEN KING A mind's frigidity: frozen steel, dark rage, morbidity. Cold fire.
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January embers
My heart burns there, too.
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STEPHEN KING Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"

He stared at me, baffle...
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STEPHEN KING Love leaves scars.
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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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