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The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares & Dreamscapes nine years ago, Everything's Eventual includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by The New Yorker, and "Riding the Bullet," King's original e-book,... read more

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  • “Think of those fingers as abilities. A creative person may write, paint, sculpt, or think up math formulae;he or she might dance or sing or play a musical instrument. Those are the fingers, but creativity is the hand that gives them life.& just as all hands are basically the same - form follows function - all creative people are the same once you get down to the place where the fingers join.”
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  • 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.
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  • If you need to be there, show up five minutes early. If they need you to be there, show up five minutes late.
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  • In a marriage, words are like rain. And the land of a marriage is filled with dry washes and arroyos that can become raging rivers in almost the wink of an eye. The therapists believe in talk, but most of them are either divorced or queer. It’s silence that is a marriage’s best friend.
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  • And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone’s blood.
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  • stories are artifacts: not really made things which we create (and can take credit for), but preexisting objects which we dig up.
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  • Women don’t trust tears from men. They may say different, but down deep they don’t trust tears from men.
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  • That voice didn’t have logic on its side, but it didn’t need to. It had good lungs and just outscreamed logic.
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  • I know that sometimes it works that way—what you write down sometimes leaves you forever, like old photographs left in the bright sun, fading to nothing but white. I pray for that sort of release.
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  • Heaven, Hell, or Grand Rapids, it was your choice—or the choice of those who had taught you what to believe. It was the human mind’s final great parlor-trick: the perception of eternity in the place where you’d always expected to spend it.
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First Sentence edit see section history

It's so dark that for awhile-just how long I don't know-I think I'm still unconscious.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Autopsy Room Four
The Man in the Black Suit
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
The Death of Jack Hamilton
In the Deathroom
The Little Sisters of Eluria
Everything's Eventual
L.T.'s Theory of Pets
The Road Virus Heads North
Lunch at the Gotham Cafe
That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French
1408
Riding the Bullet
Luckey Quarter

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This is book 9 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 2002. (authoritative list)

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  1. Stephen King (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Scribner
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 1416537813
Page Count: 608

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  • Library of Congress: PS3561.I483 E85 2002
  • Dewey: 813.54

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Reading Level: Young Adults

Some violence and horror


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