Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 32 quotes from 11/22/63 book by Stephen King that I liked and saved while reading this book. I hope you will like these quotes too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Quotes on Life
- My little life was about to change. But we never know, do we? Life turns on a dime.
- Life is too sweet to give up without a fight, don’t you think?
- Life turns on a dime. Sometimes toward us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?
- I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?
Quotes on Past
- A person who doesn’t learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.
- Living in the past was a little like living underwater and breathing through a tube.
- When you try to change the past, it bites. It’ll tear your throat out if you give it the chance.
Other Quotes
- Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. What else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might as well try to stop the wind from blowing.
- Sometimes there’s nothing to say. Sometimes you’re just stumped.
- I don’t think anybody can ever be a hundred percent sure of anything in this wicked world.
- Nobody loves a smartass, buddy – when you get to be my age, you’ll know.
- When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
- In both fiction and nonfiction, there’s only one question and one answer. What happened? the reader asks. This is what happened, the writer responds. This … and this … and this, too. Keep it simple. It’s the only sure way home.
- If you’re going to lay it on, my father used to say, you might as well lay it on thick.
- Do your best and let God do the rest.
- Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.
- Life’s simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.
- Stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.
- Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitroglycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.
- Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There’s no feeling on earth like it.
- Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it, but to nurture it is much more difficult.
- In small towns, new preachers and new teachers are always interesting topics of conversation.
- We never get so mad as when we get caught, do we?
- Cars and booze have always been a popular and sometimes lethal high school cocktail.
- We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.
- The free market isn’t free. You need to educate yourself, son. I did, and I started when I was just your age.
- They say you can fool a scientist, but you can never fool another magician.
- Women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.
- Never underestimate the terror white America feels at the idea of a society in which racial equality has become the law of the land.
- Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren’t choices at all.
- I can love you if you’re a man, and I can love you if you’re a hero – I guess, although for some reason that seems a lot harder – but I don’t think I can love a vigilante.
- I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.