Jack Ketchum Quotes

#1. Thinking about writing isn't writing. Planning to write isn't writing. Neither is talking about it, posting about it, or complaining how hard it is. These may be part of the process. But only writing is writing.

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#2. pain can work form the outside in.

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#3. Sympathy can turn so quickly. Just add fear. Stir.

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#4. She was grinning and she should have been pretty when she grinned. She had good white teeth and a lovely, delicate mouth. But something always went wrong with Denise's smile. There was always something manic in it.

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#5. In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction.

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#6. Bad enough I'm a goddamn burden to myself.

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#7. You tell me why's a man's blood is any better or any more precious than a dog's blood? It sure ain't to the dog.

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#8. I lay in bed and thought about how easy it was to hurt a person. It didn't have to be physical. All you had to do was take a good hard kick at something they cared about.

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#9. Someone once said to me that if you want to make God laugh, just tell him your plans. Just tell him who you are.

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#10. As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.

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#11. Black coffee's a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin's. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

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#12. Bar life is about as democratic as we get.

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#13. The trick of functioning with grief is that of remembering and forgetting all at once. Of letting the ghost walk at your side but not block the way.

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#14. So here my check. Overdue and overdrawn.
Cash it in hell.

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#15. The dialogue is solo now. I don't talk. No matter who's in bed with me I never do. My thoughts slip off into nightmares sometimes but I don't share them. I have become now what I only began to be then - completely self-protective.

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