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Nightmares and Dreamscapes QUOTES

1 " What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires. "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

2 " When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights. "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

3 " Você pode perguntar: e a realidade? Bem, no que me diz respeito, a realidade pode ir para o quinto dos infernos. Nunca dei muita bola para a realidade, pelo menos no meu trabalho escrito. Na maioria das vezes, ela está para a imaginação como as estacas estão para os vampiros. "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

4 " What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

5 " For me, the imagination which so often kept me awake and in terror as a child has seen me through some terrible bouts of stark raving reality as an adult. "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

6 " Sometimes you could get rid of the ghosts that were haunting your life if you could only work up enough courage to face them. "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

7 " I don’t talk about this much, because it embarrasses me and it sounds pompous, but I still see stories as a great thing, something which not only enhances lives but actually saves them. "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

8 " Здравей, мрак, стари мой приятелю.

Мечтите остаряват преди мечтателите.

— Не! - изкрещя, но беше прекалено късно. За частица от секундата зърна някакъв проблясък, сетне ръката му, която стискаше като кама химикалката, я заби в ококореното му око. Нещо изпука, той заподскача зад волана като марионетка, задвижвана от неопитен кукловод; химикалката се забиваше все по-дълбоко, а спуканата му очна ябълка се стичаше по стената му като абсурдна сълза. Металното връхче докосна някоя тънка преграда - вероятно хрущял - премина през нея и се заби в мозъка му.

Порастваш, ставаш мъж, свикваш да получаваш по-малко, отколкото си се надявал, и изведнъж откриваш, че на машината за мечти виси огромна табела с надпис "НЕ РАБОТИ". "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

9 " What are you planning?” “I think you’ve already guessed,” I said. “I have spent the last thirty-six hours digging the world’s longest grave, and now I’m going to bury you in your fucking Cadillac. "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

10 " Better to be a mouse behind the wainscoting, nibbling at the wires. Better to be a spider, high up under the eaves, spinning its web. "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

11 " London never sleeps deeply, and its dreams are uneasy. "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

12 " London was asleep . . . but London never sleeps deeply, and its dreams are uneasy. "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

13 " I ain’t crazy,” he said. “You want to see crazy? Turn on CNN, Bow . . . Howie. You’ll see crazy in living color.” • "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

14 " I sat for a minute, watching membranes of sand skirl across the desert, "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

15 " Get me out!” he shrieked. “Please! I can’t stand it! Get me out! "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

16 " I once read a very funny piece called “The Essential Gone with the Wind” that went something like this: “ ‘A war?’ laughed Scarlett. ‘Oh, fiddle-de-dee!’ “Boom! Ashley went to war! Atlanta burned! Rhett walked in and then walked out! “ ‘Fiddle-de-dee,’ said Scarlett through her tears, ‘I will think about it tomorrow, for tomorrow is another day.’ ” I "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

17 " my mangled hands making rough approximations of fists. "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

18 " They went in. And did not pass Go. And did not
collect two hundred dollars.

They went directly to bed. "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

19 " Good writing—good stories—are the imagination’s firing pin, and the purpose of the imagination, I believe, is to offer us solace and shelter from situations and life-passages which would otherwise prove unendurable. "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes

20 " Used to be you could see the orange glow of the hi-intensity arc-sodiums from North Conway, but no more. Now there’s just the White Mountains, looking like dark triangles of crepe paper cut out by a child, and the pointless "

― Stephen King , Nightmares and Dreamscapes