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Quotes from The Shining — Stephen King

b. 1947

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

The Shining (1977)

This inhuman place makes human monsters.

The Shining (1977)

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

The Shining (1977)

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

The Shining (1977)

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

The Shining (1977)

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

The Shining (1977)

Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.

The Shining (1977)

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

The Shining (1977)

You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.

The Shining (1977)

Your daddy... sometimes he does things he's sorry for later. Sometimes he doesn't think the way he should. That doesn't happen very often, but sometimes it does.

The Shining (1977)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephen King (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.