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"Did you ever notice how in the Bible when God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you really want to meet an angel?"
— Thomas Daggett (Elias Koteas) <i>The Prophecy</i> (1995)

tags: movies
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"Even now in Heaven there are Angels carrying savage weapons"
— Thomas Daggett (Elias Koteas) The Prophecy, 1995

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"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
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"I tried being reasonable, but I didn't like it."
— Clint Eastwood

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"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: humor, money
318 people liked it

"I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure."
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
173 people liked it

"You do know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
— Lauren Bacall

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"You know I love to spend my mornings, like sunlight dancing on your skin (From Til I Gain Control Again)"
— Rodney Crowell

tags: lyrics, music
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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
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"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
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"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
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"Get busy living or get busy dying."
— Stephen King (Shawshank Redemption)

tags: life
839 people liked it

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off."
— Stephen King (Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay)

tags: god, humor, religion
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"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
— Stephen King

tags: -on, from, writing-
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"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
— Stephen King

tags: books
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"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
— Stephen King (The Gunslinger)

tags: dark, horror, tower
166 people liked it

"I have the heart of a small boy...and I keep it in a jar on my desk."
— Stephen King

tags: dark-humor
247 people liked it

"Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to."
— Stephen King (Dolores Claiborne)

tags: bitch
178 people liked it

"I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. "
— Stephen King

tags: terror, writing
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"There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book."
— Stephen King

tags: stories
84 people liked it

"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
— Stephen King (On Writing)

tags: writing
106 people liked it

"Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too."
— Stephen King (It)

48 people liked it

"...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."
— John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath)

16 people liked it

"She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall."
— John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath)

tags: fear, women
6 people liked it

"...it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials."
— John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath)

tags: laughter, women
12 people liked it

"I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem."
— Diana Gabaldon (Dragonfly in Amber)

tags: claire, fiction, fraser, historical, romance, scotland, time, travel
277 people liked it

"He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace."
— Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes)

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"There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night."
— Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes)

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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
. . . nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying schoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years."
— Frank McCourt

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"People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years.

Above all -- we were wet."
— Frank McCourt

6 people liked it

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
— T.S. Eliot

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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
2,628 people liked it

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing
1,524 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories)

tags: sin
694 people liked it

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
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"Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until your forehead bleeds."
— Douglas Adams

tags: craft, humor, writing
588 people liked it

"Martin, it's all psychological. You yell barracuda, everybody says, "Huh? What?" You yell shark, we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July. "
— Mayor Vaughn (Jaws)

tags: movies
3 people liked it

"Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy. "
— Josey Wales (Outlaw Josey Wales)

tags: movies
2 people liked it

"We will shoot some arrows into the white man. If he truly has medicine, he will not be hurt. If he has no medicine, he will be dead. "
— Wind In His Hair (Dances With Wolves)

tags: movies
2 people liked it

"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. "
— William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)

tags: shakespeare
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"Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up."
— Stephen King

tags: writing
26 people liked it

"The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out."
— Stephen King (Salem's Lot)

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"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery."
— Stephen King (The Stand)

tags: god, humor
52 people liked it

"When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights."
— Stephen King (Nightmares and Dreamscapes)

13 people liked it

"A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar."
— Stephen King

tags: writing
39 people liked it

"You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair--the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page."
— Stephen King

12 people liked it

"The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted."
— Stephen King (The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon)

tags: king, stephen
8 people liked it

"American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough."
— Pat Conroy (Beach Music)

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