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#1

“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

tags: god, humor, religion

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#2

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

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#3

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
― Stephen King

tags: books, guns

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#4

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

tags: dark, jon-jake-chambers, stephen-king, tower

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#5

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

tags: dark-tower, horror

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#6

“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: life-experience, writing, writing-craft

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#7

“When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.”
― Diana Gabaldon

tags: fiery-cross, jamie-fraser, outlander

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#8

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

tags: love

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#9

“Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn

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#10

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson

tags: future, planning

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#11

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

tags: first-lines

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#12

“The street finds its own uses for things.”
― William Gibson

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#13

“Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”
― William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor

tags: memory, time

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#14

“Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.”
― William Gibson

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#15

“The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.”
― William Gibson

tags: internet

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#16

“He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

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#17

“To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.”
― William Gibson

tags: writers, writing

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#18

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#19

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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#20

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking

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#21

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

tags: drinking

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#22

“All thinking men are atheists.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

tags: atheism, inspirational

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#23

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: truth, writing, writing-advice

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#24

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writers, writing-advice

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#25

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

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#26

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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#27

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― sylvia plath

tags: goals

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#28

“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
― Sylvia Plath

tags: life

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#29

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

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#30

“Is there no way out of the mind?”
― Sylvia Plath

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