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

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
― Stephen King

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
― Stephen King

“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

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

“I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.”
― Stephen King

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

“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, Carrie

“We're here to fuck shit up”
― Stephen King

“I don't like people. They fuck me up.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair”
― Stephen King

“I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?”
― Stephen King

“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?”
― Stephen King, The Body

“Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.”
― Stephen King, It (Eso)