Top 100 Stephen King Quotes
#1. Bit if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off. Things are out of joint - going wrong and getting worse. We see it all around us, but the answers are still ahead.
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#2. God favors drunks, small children, and the cataclysmically stoned ...
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#3. I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.
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#4. Who the fuck're you?" he asked, only it came out Hoo-a fuck-a you? Al hadn't given me detailed instructions on how to answer questions, so I said what seemed safest. "None of your fucking business." "Well fuck you, too." "Fine," I said. "We are in accord." "Huh?
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#5. Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.
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#6. As the stranger came closer, Dud understood everything and welcomed it, and when the pain came, it was as sweet as silver, as green as still water at dark fathoms.
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#7. For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.
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#8. I didn't know then that a person is never sure about a lot of things, no matter how much he wants to be.
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#9. As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?
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#10. She wasn't like a jukebox; you never had to put in a dime and she never came unplugged.
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#11. Every now and then there's a small scream from the part that thinks it's still alive. It will stop soon.
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#12. It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.
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#13. I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free.
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#14. And suddenly it didn't seem to matter any more, nothing would matter if she could turn over, turn over and see the stars, turn over and look once and die.
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#15. But storytelling always changes time. At least it does in my world.
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#16. Will I like it Jake? In your place?'
'I hope so, hon.'
'Is it very different?'
I smiled. 'People pay more for gasoline and have more buttons to push. Otherwise, it's about the same.
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#17. Stories are found things, like fossils in the ground ... Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered, pre-existing world.
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#18. So I turned on the tube (throwback slang from the Nifty Fifties; televisions no longer have tubes) and channel-surfed for awhile. On
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#19. Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.
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#20. Or perhaps it was the voice of the Darker Girl.
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#22. All I wanted was eighteen holes of golf on Saturday afternoon, and instead I turned into Snow White with hair on my chest.
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#23. Right is what all this is about," Roland said. "But if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off.
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#24. The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
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#25. In the dark, all cats are gray . . . and to the blind, they're no color at all.
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#26. You know the price of selling out the future, Sully-John? You can never really leave the past.
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#27. I think that gratitude for life, whatever the cause, indicates that one has managed to hold on to the core of one's sanity.
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#28. He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands
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#29. It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was convinced it ws the cries of the badly wounded andf deeply afflicted which spun the universe on the great glass pole of it's axis.
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#30. Shortly after, the aqueous symphony of dawn began. The last day of the Walk came up wet and overcast. The wind howled down the almost-empty alley of the road like a lost dog being whipped through a strange and terrible place.
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#31. I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life ... I want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters.
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#32. White America has filled its house with kindling; now it will burn. The
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#33. You've been through my stuff. I bent over and let one of you stick the world's longest finger up my ass. If a prostate check is an exam, that was a motherfucking safari. I was scared to look down. I thought I'd see that guy's fingernail sticking out of my cock.
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#34. There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.
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#35. Back then I was dropping acid regularly, and I lost all sorts of stuff. Including, for short periods, my mind.
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#36. He had discovered, as many others had before him, that only the first cussword is really hard; after that, there's nothing quite like them for relieving one's feelings.
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#37. Definition Of A Wanderer: A guy who's always looking beyond
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#38. Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.
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#39. I'd jump out of her mouth some night while she's snoring and run the fuck away.
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#40. There's no Texas barbecue as good as Fort Worth barbecue,
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#41. But my father needed a job so he could finish a play he was working on . . .
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#42. Stan's father had told him that, before the money ran out, they had intended to put the statue of the soldier back up here again.
'I like the birdbath better, Daddy,' Stan said.
Mr Uris ruffled his hair. 'Me too, son,' he said. 'More baths and less bullets, that's my motto.
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#43. I've got icewater in my veins and I hope you freeze on the first bite. Come on, you busher! Batter-fucking-up!
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#44. Shelley Duvall as Wendy is really one of the most misogynistic characters ever put on film, she's basically just there to scream and be stupid and that's not the woman that I wrote about.
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#45. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen.
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#46. UR LOCAL's under construction. Better watch out, traffic fines double.
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#47. Thud, thud, thud, riderless black horse with red eyes coming down the halls of his mind, ironshod hooves digging up soft gray clods of brain tissue, leaving hoofprints to fill up with mystic crescents of blood.
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#48. In his own way he recognized his madness, and that was the sort of thing mad people did, right enough.
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#49. I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters.
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#50. It's his voice that I remember, certainly: my father's voice, low and slow, how he would chuckle sometimes or laugh outright.
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#51. Hearts don't really break. If only they could.
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#52. Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.
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#53. Writers were blessed stenographers taking divine dictation.
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#54. Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.
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#55. Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.
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#56. No," Roland said, "but it's a fair tale. Tell it to the end, please." Eddie did, finishing with the required They lived happily ever after, and the gunslinger nodded. "No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?" "Yeah," Jake said.
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#57. College was for people who didn't know they were smart.
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#58. It's like the old pie-in-the-face routine: it stops being funny when it starts being you.
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#59. The world has a way of keeping things in balance.
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#60. My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.
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#61. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache ...
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#62. When all the normal patterns and routines of a person's life fell apart - and with such shocking suddenness - you had to find something you could hold onto, something that was both sane and predictable.
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#63. Teenagers are fast. They're like cockroaches that way.
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#64. Indeed he did, and we never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not. Wouldn't you say so, Mr. Streeter?
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#65. I was lost in the dark and you found me. I was hot - so hot - and you gave me ice.
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#66. He had locked himself safely away in a place beyond pain.
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#67. A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.
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#68. The way I look at it, checkbook love is better than no love at all.
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#69. Tell him to shut up! Tell him there's no crying in baseball!
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#70. And people who don't dream, who don't have any kind of imaginative life, they must ... they must go nuts. I can't imagine that.
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#71. The two of them had discovered it was all right to open the closets ... as long as you didn't poke too far back in them. Because things might still be lurking there, ready to bite.
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#72. There was a lot they didn't tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
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#73. It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn't complicated by much in the way of thought.
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#74. But sin never dies. Sin . . . never . . . dies.
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#75. I am not the potter, nor the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay, does it depend on the value achieved intrinsic as much as the value of the clay as the wheel and master craftsmanship?
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#76. First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead
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#78. Children learn much more by mute example than by spoken rules, or so it seems to me.
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#79. Sometimes I think life is a sad, bad business, Doc I really do.
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#80. At three in the morning the blood runs slow and thick, and slumber is heavy. The soul either sleeps in blessed ignorance of such an hour or gazes about itself in utter despair. There is no middle ground
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#81. It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.
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#82. Harry Dunning graduated with flying colors.
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#83. To those readers who feel that I didn't know any better, I assert that I did ... but the temptation was simply too great to resist.
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#84. God's a connoisseur of fragile things, and decorates His cloudy outlook with ornaments of finest glass.
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#85. At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream.
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#86. For the next ten minutes we talked theology in the green corn while early summer clouds - the best clouds, the ones that float like schooners - sailed slowly above us, trailing their shadows like wakes.
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#87. Most kids don't give a hoot in hell for brains; they go a penny a pound, and the kid with the high I.Q. who can't play baseball or at least come in third in the local circle jerk is everybody's fifth wheel.
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#88. For the first time in his life, Roland found himself hating his own childhood. He wished for the size and calluses and sureness of age.
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#89. I guess that means I won in the end, at least in a financial sense. But in my heart I stayed ashamed. I kept hearing Miss Hisler asking me why I wanted to waste my talent, why I wanted to waste my time, why I wanted to write junk.
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#90. For months - sometimes even years, as I tried to explain to you - time hardly seems to exist. Then everything comes in a gasp.
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#91. Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals.
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#93. Rich people can be generous, even the ones with bloodcurdling political views can be generous, but most believe in generosity on their own terms, and underneath (not so deep, either), they're always afraid someone is going to steal their presents and eat their birthday cake.
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#94. I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.
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#95. Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh!
Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.
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#96. Question: Death, where is thy sting? Answer: Every-fucking-where.
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#97. Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.
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#98. To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don't even think about money.
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#100. But of course names were secret things, full of power. And
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