But who can foresee such ...

But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try; most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment\'s pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone\'s blood.
But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try; most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood.
 Stephen King

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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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 Stephen King
For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.
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I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers, but they can't spell. Because spell-check won't [help] you if you don't know through from threw. I told them, "If you can read in the 21st century, you own the world." Because you learn to write from reading.
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 Stephen King
If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.
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 Stephen King
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
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 Stephen King