"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
-Stephen King
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"We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.“
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"What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts."
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"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
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"Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."
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"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."
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"I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody."
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
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