Dolores Claiborne quotes

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""Rolling Stone Interview (2014)
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University of Maine Commencement Address (2005)

View Quote Tomorrowland, it seemed, ended up being an empty place where people smart enough to capture the stars got mad and tore each other to shreds with the claws on their feet.

View Quote Tough old world, baby. If you’re not bolted together tightly, you’re gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.

View Quote We all float down here!

View Quote We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

View Quote We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

View Quote Well, I don't like Dreamcatcher very much. Dreamcatcher was written after the accident. [In 1999, King was hit by a van while taking a walk and left severely injured.] I was using a lot of Oxycontin for pain. And I couldn't work on a computer back then because it hurt too much to sit in that position. So I wrote the whole thing longhand. And I was pretty stoned when I wrote it, because of the Oxy, and that's another book that shows the drugs at work.

View Quote Well, we all do what we can, and it has to be good enough... and if it isn’t good enough, it has to do.

View Quote What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the Earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous mother****ers in the jungle.

View Quote What fascinates me — mesmerizes me — isn't so much Trump himself as the American government he's crafted: a major world power with no policy, no consistency, and no idea what it's doing.

View Quote What if you're right? Husbands die everyday, Delores, why, one is probably dying right now while you're sitting here weeping.

View Quote What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.

View Quote What you buy is what you own, and sooner or later what you own will come back to you.

View Quote When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."

View Quote When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why God? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off".

View Quote When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.

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