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“I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.”
― Lemmy Kilmister

“The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.”
― David Bowie

“People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"

[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]”
― Lemmy Kilmister

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
― Stephen King

“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“But any man can lose his head. That's what they don't realise. Any man. Under the right set of circumstances”
― Stephen King, Just After Sunset

“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”
― Umberto Eco

“Pissing and thinking have a lot in common, he thought. You can put them both off. But not forever.”
― Stephen King

“Pissing and thinking have a lot in common, he thought. You can put them both off.. But not forever.”
― Stephen King, Secret Window, Secret Garden

“Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.”
― Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery

“It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.”
― Franz Kafka

“He said books were more interesting than people.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

“Want a balloon?”
― Stephen King, It

“The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself - that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by something much duller, something as bogus as a coke high: purpose, maybe, or goals, or whatever rah-rah Junior Chamber of Commerce word you wanted to use.”
― Stephen King, It

“All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time would do those things, and time would do an imperfect job.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“Intuition is seeing with the soul.”
― Dean Koontz

“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
― Stephen King , The Stand

“Men who find themselves late are never sure.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.”
― Edgar Alan Poe, Berenice

“We all float down here!”
― Stephen King, It