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“A person sometimes believes she’s seen all the way to the bottom of the well of human stupidity, and a reminder that that well apparently has no bottom is sometimes useful.” (The Tommyknockers Quotes)
Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
“And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.”
Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
“Boring and unpleasant did not mean a task was ‘unfruitful,’ a fact a lot of people seemed not to know, or to willfully ignore.”
Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
“Getting help from a guy like you is like hiring a pyromaniac to fix the oil-burner.”
Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
“He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth of this bed, filled with their peaceful heat under two quilts, and wishing it could be like this forever.”
Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
“I don’t mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns – you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It’s just that creative people have creative breakdowns.”
Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
“Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don’t know if I can ‘cuz I’m so afraid of the tommyknocker man.”
Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
“Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses at the track, and telling lies in a sincerely believable way, also applies to magic: some people got the knack, and some people don’t. Hilly didn’t.”
Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
“Overhead was a sky blacker than jewelers’ velvet, and a billion stars screamed down.”
Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
“The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cleaned up.”
Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
“The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn’t like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got.”
Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
“Then they were all standing and applauding, yeah, they were giving him a standing O, and in their faces he saw what every poet or would-be poet hopes to see when he or she finished reading: the faces of people suddenly awakened from a dream brighter than any reality.”
Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
“There’s a big difference between being good at what you do and being smart about what you KNOW… Give yourself some time to grow up. And stop being your own jury.”
Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
“We always assumed the aliens would have to at least be alive to invade. Not even H.G. Wells expected an invasion of ghosts.”
Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
