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Quote by Stephen King

“When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.”

Quote by Stephen King

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Stephen King, born on September 21, 1947, is a renowned American author. His works primarily focus on horror, fantasy, and science fiction, and have won him a wide audience. King has received numerous literary awards in the United States, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the World Fantasy Award. more

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“I feel like he's taking advantage of me. Advantage of my illness. He thinks he can rewrite history in any way that he likes and I will never know, never be any the wiser. But I do know. I know exactly what he's doing. And so I don’t trust him. In the end he is pushing me away, Dr. Nash. Ruining everything.”

Thinking Knows Way Feels Ends Advantage Illness Likes Pushing Wiser Drs Don't Trust Taking Advantage Pushing Me Away Ruining Everything

Author:S.J. Watson

“Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains”

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“She tried to open the bottle, but the top slipped through her fingers without moving. He took the bottle from her hand and opened it with his thumb and index finger. There was nothing special in the gesture and yet she found it strangely fascinating like a small heroic feat performed specially for her.”

Hands Moving Found Special Fingers Fascinating Bottles Heroic Gestures Thumbs Feats

Author:Paolo Giordano

“We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be!”

Author:Rick Warren

“we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.”

Knows Know How Despair Laughter Remains Antidote

Book:Relentless: A Novel

Source: Relentless: A Novel

“Dammit, Jim. I'm a Guardian, not a doctor.”

Doctors Guardian

Book:Fire Me Up: An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel

Source: Fire Me Up: An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel

“Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship’s more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments.”

“Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.”

Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's

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Long Made Hard Moments Song Dies Sleep Wonder Sun Gone Sky Hair Window Wander Tunes Harsh Dusk Prairie Pastures

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“Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)