"Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run."

Emotion, Jealousy, Reality, Imagination

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"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Future, Truth, Power, Happiness

"I have wished a bird would fly away,And not sing by my house all day;Have clapped my hands at him from the doorWhen it seemed as if I could bear no more.The fault must partly have been in me.The bird was not to blame for his keys.And of course there must be something wrongIn waiting to silence any song."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Emotion, Patience, Silence, Music, Life

"I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we re still alive."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Love, Truth, Happiness, Life

"He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Memory, Space, Truth

"I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Today, Happiness, Power, Truth

"She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Regret, Truth, Power, Inspirational

"That- we seemed to have decided without saying a word- might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Truth, Beauty, Wisdom, Today

"How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?"If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?"Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "TouchA©. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story..."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Truth, Wisdom, Today, Power

"He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Emotion, Guilt, Perception, Truth, Responsibility

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"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."

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"I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we re still alive."

"He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly."

"I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present."

"She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar."

"That- we seemed to have decided without saying a word- might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy."

"He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you."

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