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Origine: It (1986)
Contesto: Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question...So drive away quick, drive away while the last of the light slips away...drive away from Derry, from memory...but not from desire. That stays, the bright cameo of all we were and all we believed as children, all that shone in our eyes even when we were lost and the wind blew in the night. Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand. All the rest is darkness.
Contesto: So you leave, and there is an urge to look back, to look back just once as the sunset fades, to see that severe New England skyline one final time... Best not to look back. Best to believe that there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question... So drive away quick, drive away while the last of the light slips away... drive away from Derry, from memory... but not from desire. That stays, the bright cameo of all we were and all we believed as children, all that shone in our eyes even when we were lost and the wind blew in the night. Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand. All the rest is darkness.

“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”

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Origine: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.”

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Stephen King libro La storia di Lisey

Origine: Lisey's Story

“Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.”

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Stephen King libro It

Origine: It

“When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit.”

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Stephen King libro Notte buia, niente stelle

Origine: Full Dark, No Stars

“If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.”

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Stephen King

Origine: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.”

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Stephen King libro Stagioni diverse

Origine: Different Seasons

“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

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Different Seasons (1982), Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Variante: Either get busy living or get busy dying
Origine: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons