Stephen King

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly. ↗

— Stephen King

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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. ↗

— Stephen King

#talent #success

I tend to scare myself. ↗

— Stephen King

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It is the tale, not he who tells it. ↗

— Stephen King

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Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too. ↗

— Stephen King

#friendship #privacy #friendship

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad. ↗

— Stephen King

#morality #morals

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows ↗

— Stephen King

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No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves. ↗

— Stephen King

#life

High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up. ↗

— Stephen King

#school

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library. ↗

— Stephen King

#library