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1 " For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. "
― Stephen King , Bag of Bones
2 " Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on. "
3 " I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness. "
4 " A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again. "
5 " Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment. "
6 " I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message. "
7 " The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited. "
8 " I suspect that fright, like pain, is one of those things that slip our minds once they have passed. What I do remember is a feeling I'd had before when I was down here, especially when I was walking this road by myself. It was a sense that reality is thin. I think it is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves. "
9 " When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing- "
10 " Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight. "
11 " Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug. "
12 " I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer. "
13 " And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was. "
14 " When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs- "
15 " The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there. "
16 " So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then. "
17 " Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books. "
18 " I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal. "
19 " Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals. "
20 " There's something oddly comforting about talking to a legal guy once the billable hours clock has started running; you have passed the magical point at which a lawyer becomes your lawyer. Your lawyer is warm, your lawyer is sympathetic, your lawyer makes notes on a yellow pad and nods in all the right places. Most of the questions your lawyer asks are questions you can answer. And if you can't your lawyer will help you find a way to do so, by God. Your lawyer is always on your side. Your enemies are his enemies. To him you are never shit but always Shinola. "
