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Stephen King
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“I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.”
Stephen King (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I work until beer o'clock.”
Stephen King (born 1947) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his 9 to 5 writing day, as quoted in Time (6 October 1986)
“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.”
Stephen King (born 1947) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Time (October 6, 1986)
“I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex — a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when it tramples houses... I started out as a storyteller; along the way I became an economic force.”
Stephen King (born 1947) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Politics of Limited Editions essay in Castle Rock Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 6 (June 1985), republished in various real world publications, including The Stephen King Story (1992) by George W. Beahm, p. 112
“I think the author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson. Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me.”
Stephen King (born 1947) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in an edition of I Am Legend (1995)
“President Clinton has made a few feeble swipes at addressing this issue [school violence], but one can only gape at the unintentionally comic spectacle of this man chastising the gun-lobby and America's love of violent movies while he rains bombs on Yugoslavia, where at least twenty noncombatants have already died for every innocent student at Columbine High. It is like listening to a man with a crack-pipe in his hand lecture children about the evils of drugs.”
Stephen King (born 1947) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Keynote Address, Vermont Library Conference, VEMA Annual Meeting, (26 May 1999)
“If I know anything, I know scary. And giving this president and this out-of-control Congress two more years to screw up our future is downright terrifying. Thankfully, this national nightmare is one we can end.”
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Recorded in: My Book About A Really Mean Car That Kills People Was Pretty Scary. But Not As Scary As Those Scary Republicans", The Gaggle, Newsweek (24 October 2006)
“YouTube is very addictive. I refused to put it on my favorite places because it's too easy to go there.”
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“On a couple of occasions I've shocked myself. Pet Sematary was appalling when it first came out on to the page.”
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“You think 'Okay, I get it, I'm prepared for the worst', but you hold out that small hope, see, and that's what fucks you up. That's what kills you.”
Stephen King (born 1947) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Joyland (2013)
“I've made some things for you, Constant Reader; you see them laid out before you in the moonlight. But before you look at the little handcrafted treasures I have for sale, let's talk about them for a bit, shall we? It won't take long. Here, sit down beside me. And do come a little closer. I don't bite. Except ... we've known each other for a very long time, and I suspect you know that's not entirely true. Is it?”
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Recorded in: The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Introduction (2015)
“It's fascinating to me that there has been so much comment about that single sex scene and so little about the multiple child murders. That must mean something, but I'm not sure what.”
Stephen King (born 1947) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Regarding a controversial scene in his 1986 novel It
“If dogs could fly, nobody would go out without an umbrella.”
Stephen King (born 1947) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter (4 September 2017)
“What fascinates me — mesmerizes me — isn't so much Trump himself as the American government he's crafted: a major world power with no policy, no consistency, and no idea what it's doing.”
Stephen King (born 1947) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter (1 April 2018); also quoted in "37 of the most brutal Trump burns tweeted by Stephen King in 2018" by Sam Haysom, at Mashable (27 December 2018)
“one of the greats...Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon.”
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Recorded in: on Twitter, about Ursula Le Guin (2018)
“I went down the staircase whistling; I felt wonderful. Things happen that way sometimes. When everything is at its worst, your mind just throws it all in the wastebasket and goes to Florida for a little while. There is a sudden electric what-the-hell glow as you stand there looking back over your shoulder at the bridge you just burned down.”
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“I don't think there was anything in my brain right then except the usual background static -- the kind you get on your radio when it's turned up all the way and tuned to no station at all. My brain had checked to the power, so to speak; the little guy wearing the Napoleon hat inside was showing aces and betting them.”
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“You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all, sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that.”
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“This," I said pleasantly, "is known as getting it on.”
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“That's what a shrink is for, my friends and neighbors; their job is to fuck the mentally disturbed and make them pregnant with sanity. It's a bull's job and they go to school to learn how, and their courses are all variations on a theme: Slipping It to the Psychos for Fun and Profit, Mostly Profit. And if you find yourself someday lying on that great analyst's couch where so many have lain before you, I'd ask you to remember one thing: When you get sanity by stud, the child always looks like the father. And they have a very high suicide rate.”
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“I won't play a cheap parlor game with human lives for party favors, Charlie." "Congratulations to you, " I said. "You just described modern psychiatry. That ought to be the textbook definition, Don. Now, let me tell you: you'll take a piss out the window if I tell you to. And God help you if I catch you in a lie. That will get somebody killed too. Ready to bare your soul, Don? Are you on your mark?”
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“Craziness is only a matter of degree, and there are lots of people besides me who have the urge to roll heads.”
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“When you stop to think, the whole idea of comprehension has a faintly archaic taste, like the sound of forgotten tongues or a look into a Victorian camera obscura. We Americans are much higher on simple understanding. It makes it easier to read the billboards when you're heading into town on the expressway at plus-fifty. To comprehend, the mental jaws have to gape wide enough to make the tendons creak. Understanding, however, can be purchased on every paperback-book rack in America.”
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“And then a funny thing happened to me...except when I think about it, it wasn't very funny at all. There must be a line in all of us, a very clear one, just like the line that divides the light side of a planet from the dark. I think they call that line the terminator. That's a very good word for it. Because at that moment I was freaking out, and at the next I was as cool as a cucumber.”
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“For no reason at all, I thought of New Year's Eve, when all those people crowd into Times Square and scream like jackals as the lighted ball slides down the pole, ready to shed its thin party glare on three hundred and sixty-five new days in this best of all possible worlds. I have always wondered what it would be like to be caught in one of those crowds, screaming and not able to hear your own voice, your individuality momentarily wiped out and replaced with the blind empathic overslop of the crowd's lurching, angry anticipation, hip to hip and shoulder to shoulder with no one in particular.”
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“Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.”
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“She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.”
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“You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
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“We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.”
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“What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.”
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“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
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“He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.”
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“Your daddy... sometimes he does things he's sorry for later. Sometimes he doesn't think the way he should. That doesn't happen very often, but sometimes it does.”
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“'Any big hotels have got scandals,' he said. 'Just like every big hotel has got a ghost. Why? Hell, people come and go. Sometimes one of em will pop off in his room, heart attack or stroke or something like that. Hotels are superstitious places. No thirteenth floor or room thirteen, no mirrors on the back of the door you come in through, stuff like that.”
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“A lot of folks, they got a little bit of shine to them. They don't even know it. But they always seem to show up with flowers when their wives are feelin blue with the monthlies, they do good on school tests they don't even study for, they got a good idea how people are feelin as soon as they walk into a room.”
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“This inhuman place makes human monsters.”
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“Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.”
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“Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.”
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“He rolled in his bed, twisting the sheets, grappling with a problem years too big for him, awake in the night like a single sentinel on picket. And sometime after midnight, he slept, too, and then only the wind was awake, prying at the hotel and hooting in its gables under the bright gimlet gaze of the stars.”
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“Martin Luther King had told them not long before the bullet took him down to his martyr's grave that he had been to the mountain. Dick could not claim that. No mountain, but he had reached a sunny plateau after years of struggle.”
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“He had a massive stroke. 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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“You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.”
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“Afterward Larry felt as if he had been through a long pillow-fight in which all the pillows had been treated with a low-grade poison gas.”
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“Starkey put his fingers under the man's chin and pushed his head back. As he did so, the man's eyeballs fell back into his head with a meaty little thud. The words on the sign had been written in red Magic Marker. NOW YOU KNOW IT WORKS, the sign said, ANY QUESTIONS?”
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“I have harbored hate of the Lord in my heart. Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God, He Is, what He Is, and in this world He's apt to repay service with pain while those who do evil ride over the roads in Cadillac cars. Even the joy of serving Him is a bitter joy.”
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“Did you know that Dairy Queen ice cream is mostly bubbles?”
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“M-O-O-N, that spells ILLEGAL!”
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“There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.”
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“It was things like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, he thought, that made you believe the world was maybe just as well off destroyed.”
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“When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time.”
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