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    Stephen King
    “So okay― there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Stephen King
    “A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: humor
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    Stephen King
    “I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: inspiration, stephen-king, wise, writers, writing
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    Stephen King
    “But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else.

    Wash the car, maybe.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: on-writing, stephen-king
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    Stephen King
    “Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    A.A. Milne
    “When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    A.A. Milne
    “Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: humor
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    Jodi Picoult
    “I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
    tags: betrayal, two-faced-people
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    Donald Gorman
    “More often than not, if a person is wearing a smile, there is a victim attached somewhere.”
    ― Donald Gorman, Paradox
    tags: humor, humor-inspirational, paranoia, parnoia-humor
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    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “Have you ever felt as if your dreams were more memorable, more alive, than what you knew to be reality? Have your dreams ever seemed so tangible as to make you question upon waking if you’d truly only dreamt them? Have they at times been addictive enough to consume your waking hours; blurring actuality and pretend together until your wishes and passions stare back at you with open eyes?

    If only dreams could be reality, that beautiful garden of sweet-smelling roses we all long for. But reality for me is no such bed of roses. It is nothing but a field of unwanted dandelions."

    - From the thoughts of Annabelle Fancher”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
    tags: abuse, annabelle, annabelle-fancher, child-abuse, dandelions, dreams, fantasy, richelle, richelle-goodrich
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  • #11
    “A statue stands in a shaded place
    An angel girl with an upturned face
    A name is written on a polished rock
    A broken heart that the world forgot”
    ― Martina Mcbride
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    Clive Barker
    “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
    ― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
    tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness
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    Libba Bray
    “We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.”
    ― Libba Bray
    tags: regret
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    Mercedes Lackey
    “If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
    ― Mercedes Lackey
    tags: past, regret
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: belief, delusions, faith, insanity
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    John Boyne
    “What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?”
    ― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    tags: children, epiphany, holocaust, thoughts
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    Valerie Sinason
    “Mind control is built on lies and manipulation of attachment needs.”
    ― Valerie Sinason, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
    tags: attachment, deprivation-of-rights, dissociative-identity-disorder, lies, manipulation, mind-control, operant-conditioning, ritual-abuse, torture, trauma-bonding
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss
    tags: depression, pain, trauma
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    Arthur Golden
    “After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: fear, trauma
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    “If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us... but they're still fucking psychopaths.”
    ― Jonathan Kellerman, Self-Defense
    tags: milo-sturgis, psychopaths, talent, truth
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    Michael Connelly
    “There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.”
    ― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow
    tags: darkness, evil, hearts, lights, psychology, psychopaths, souls
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    Dan Wells
    “It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.”
    ― Dan Wells, Mr. Monster
    tags: dan-wells, identify-with, john-cleaver, killers, psychopaths, shock
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels
    tags: brinksmanship, crazy, crisis, insanity
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
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    Tennessee Williams
    “We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
    tags: burning, fire, house, trapped, windows
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    Sara Grant
    “Yeah, as long as we know we're trapped, we still have a chance to escape.”
    ― Sara Grant, Neva
    tags: trapped
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