"You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.“

-Stephen King

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"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.'"

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"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

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

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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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"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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"Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones."

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"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."

-John Lennon

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."

-Tom Bodett

"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."

-Walter Benjamin

"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."

-Antonio Porchia

"There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope."

-Gerard Way

"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."

-Jim Henson