Stephen King: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 25)

“There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.”

“We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.”

“Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.”

“It's best to be ruthless with the past.”

“Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?

She had shaken her head slowly.

Men and women who can't get over their past… That's what ghosts are.”

“The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.”

“Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.”

“Ka was like a wheel, its one purpose to turn, and in the end it always came back to the place where it had started.”

“I don’t want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead)…”

“Be true, be brave, stand
All the rest is darkness.”

“Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.”

“Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.”

“Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.”

“When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.”

“Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.”

“Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.”

“Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.”

“Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”

“He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.”