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If It Bleeds QUOTES

If It Bleeds QUOTES

1 " When an old man dies, a library burns. "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

2 " Films are ephemeral, while books—the good ones—are eternal, or close to it. "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

3 " Youth is a wonderful thing,” said Mr. Harrigan. “What a shame it’s wasted on children. "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

4 " And what makes you think you’re a main character in anything but your own mind? "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

5 " The universe is large, he thought. It contains multitudes. It also contains me, and in this moment I am wonderful. I have a right to be wonderful. "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

6 " Henry Thoreau said that we don’t own things; things own us. Every new object—whether it’s a home, a car, a television, or a fancy phone like that one—is something more we must carry on our backs. "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

7 " Love is a gift; love is also a chain with a manacle at each end. "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

8 " The human brain is finite—no more than a sponge of tissue inside a cage of bone—but the mind within the brain is infinite. Its storage capacity is colossal, its imaginative reach beyond our ability to comprehend. I think when a man or woman dies, a whole world falls to ruin—the world that person knew and believed in. Think of that, kiddo—billions of people on earth, and each one of those billions with a world inside. The earth their minds have conceived. "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

9 " My grandmother used to say a person shouldn’t call out unless they want an answer. I’ve always thought that was good advice. "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

10 " I am large, I contain multitudes’? "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

11 " Because there really is a second world. It exists because people refuse to believe it’s there. "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

12 " Which is what most of our modern communications amount to, when you stop to think of it; chatter for the sake of chatter. "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

13 " Mr. Harrigan also promised this, but I suppose men who understand business also understand that promises are easy to discard, being as how giving them is free. "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

14 " I think we mostly live alone. By choice, like him, or just because that’s the way the world was made. "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

15 " I think our phones are how we are wedded to the world. If so, it’s probably a bad marriage. "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

16 " Free samples are fine, but if you give people too much for-free, whether it’s clothes or food or information, they come to expect it. "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

17 " Business is like football, Craig. If you have to knock someone down to reach the goal line, you better damn well do it, or you shouldn’t put on a uniform and go out on the field in the first place. "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

18 " Nothing was eternal, except maybe for the mind of God, and even at thirteen I had my doubts about that. "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

19 " I believe you hear a click, not in your head but in your soul, when you find the place where you belong. You can ignore it, but really, why would you? "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds

20 " It’s from Balzac. ‘Behind every great fortune there is a crime.’ That was the theme I saw, even though the fortune ran through his fingers long before he was shot down in Cicero. "

― Stephen King , If It Bleeds