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Although I lean toward the rational, the known, and the empiric – having never seen a ghost, or had a flash of precognition – I must admit there are elements of your story I can’t dismiss out of hand. (Later Quotes)
Stephen King
Later
Belief is a high hurdle to get over and I think it’s even higher for smart people. Smart people know a lot, and maybe that makes them think they know everything.
Stephen King
Later
Certain lines of work are recession-proof. Funeral parlors always make out. Repo companies and bail bondsmen. Liquor stores. And the dope biz. Because, good times or bad, people are going to want to get high.
Stephen King
Later
Even a little kid knows certain basic things if he’s not soft in the attic.
Stephen King
Later
Grownups have a tough time believing, and I’ll tell you why. When they find out as kids that Santa Claus is a fake and Goldilocks isn’t a real girl and the Easter Bunny is bullshit – just three examples, I could give more – it makes a complex and they stop believing anything they can’t see for themselves.
Stephen King
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I don’t mean to scare you, but sometimes a scare is the only lesson that works.
Stephen King
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I don’t think the world starts to come into focus until you’re fifteen or sixteen; up until then you just take what you’ve got and roll with it.
Stephen King
Later
I think that people who say life is all about the choices we make and the roads we go down are full of shit. When the fickle finger of fate points at you, all roads lead to the same place, that’s what I think. I may change my mind when I’m older, but I really don’t think so.
Stephen King
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If you try to outrun your own shadow, you’re bound to fall on your face.
Stephen King
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It’s hard to like what you’re scared of. Maybe impossible.
Stephen King
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One of the worst things about being a kid, maybe the very worst, is how grownups ignore you when they get going on their shit.
Stephen King
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Parents who can’t carry a tune in a tin pail can produce a singing prodigy; illiterates can produce a great writer. Sometimes talent comes from nowhere, or so it seems.
Stephen King
Later
So yeah, I see dead people. As far as I can remember, I always have. It can be interesting, it can be scary sometimes, it can be a pain in the ass, but mostly it just is. Like being left-handed, or being able to play classical music when you’re like three years old, or getting early-onset Alzheimer’s.
Stephen King
Later
Tell you what, the worst part of growing up is how it shuts you up.
Stephen King
Later
When you’re little and it’s your mom, you say okay to everything. Unless she says it’s bedtime, of course. Or to finish your broccoli. You get used to marvelous things. You take them for granted. You can try not to, but you do. There’s too much wonder, that’s all. It’s everywhere.
Stephen King
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