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“And I guess you judge how well you’re doing by how well you sleep at night… and what your dreams are like.” (Different Seasons Quotes)
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“And that’s where I want to finish out my life, Red. In a warm place that has no memory.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“As I believe I have said, everyone in prison is an innocent man. Oh, they read the scripture the way those holy rollers on TV read the Book of Revelations. They were the victims of judges with hearts of stone and balls to match, or incompetent lawyers, or police frame-ups, or bad luck. They read the scripture, but you can see a different scripture in their faces. Most cons are a low sort, no good to themselves or anyone else, and their worst luck was that their mothers carried them to term.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“Homesickness is a real sickness—the ache of the uprooted plant.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“I don’t have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“I felt the warmth that any man or woman feels when he or she is looking at something pretty, something that has been worked and made—that’s the thing that really separates us from the animals,”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“I used to laugh at that old wheeze about a man wanting his son to be better than he was, but as I get older it seems less funny and more true.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“In here I’m the guy who can get things for you… outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don’t think I could make it.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living or get busy dying.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“It’s a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That’s where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“Life is a tiger you have to grab by the tail, and if you don’t know the nature of the beast it will eat you up.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“Music on the radio. When I went in, the big bands were just getting up a good head of steam. Now every song sounds like it’s about fucking.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“No, it’s not a very good story – its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“One does not always need to hear a slam to know that the door has been closed.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“September days always seemed to end much too soon, catching me by surprise—it was as if something inside my heart expected it to always be June, with daylight lingering in the sky until almost nine-thirty.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won’t have to be afraid all the time.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them – words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“There’s a crying shortage of pretty things in the slam, and the real pity of it is that a lot of men don’t even seem to miss them.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“There’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There’s good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“This second type of guy knows there’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“Time continued to pass – the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
“What it comes down to, Red, is some people refuse to get their hands dirty at all. That’s called sainthood, and the pigeons land on your shoulders and crap all over your shirt.”
Stephen King
Different Seasons
