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The Loss Of Memory Isn't Always The Problem; Sometimes--maybe Even Often--it's The Solution.
-Stephen King
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The Loss Of Memory

Stephen King
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The Loss Of Memory Isn't Always The Problem; Sometimes--maybe Even Often--it's The Solution.

Understanding the Quote: "the loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the..."

This quote by Stephen King reflects deeply on the theme of memories. It connects to the universal human journey of purpose, motivation, and reflection. Often categorized under Memories, Loss, Problem, the quote offers insight, emotional clarity, and intellectual inspiration to readers worldwide.

Whether you’re a student exploring new ideas, a leader trying to motivate your team, or someone seeking direction in life — this quote provides value. It resonates because it’s more than words — it’s a bridge between experience and wisdom. It shows how Stephen King interprets life's core challenges and triumphs.

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Explanations Are Such Cheap Poetry.
Explanation
Humans Were Built To Look Back; That's Why We Have That Swivel Joint In Our Necks
Looks
Joints
Necks
Time Takes It All, Whether You Want It To Or Not.
Change
Time
Life Changing
It's Time For The Wealthy To Pay Their Fair Share Before The Middle Class Becomes The Forgotten Class.- And It's Time For The Banks To Give Back What They Were Given. There Are Those In Politics, Particularly Those On The Conservative Side, Who Can't Get Enough Of Telling People That The Wealthy One Per Cent Must Not Be Taxed Because Doing So Kills Jobs. The Real Job-killers Are Corporate Greed And Political Expediency. It's Time For Working People In Maine And All Across The Country To Take Back The American Dream.
Dream
Country
Jobs
Every Marriage Has Two Hearts, One Light And One Dark
Heart
Dark
Light
If You Don't Have Time To Read, You Don't Have The Time (or The Tools) To Write. Simple As That.
Writing
Simple
Tools
They Walked Back Into The World Together, Wearing The Gift That Had Been Given Them: Just Life. Pity Was Not Love, Barbie Reflected...but If You Were A Child, Giving Clothes To Someone Who Was Naked Had To Be A Step In The Right Direction.
Children
Clothes
Giving
There’s Always Someone Who Knows Something.
Knows
Roland Grabbed Jake And Hauled Him To His Feet. “you Came!” Jake Shouted. “you Really Came!” “i Came, Yes. By The Grace Of The Gods And The Courage Of My Friends, I Came.
Feet
Grace
Jake
Now Comes The Big Question: What Are You Going To Write About? And The Equally Big Answer: Anything You Damn Well Want. Anything At All .... As Long As You Tell The Truth.
Writing
Long
Answers
I've Spoken Out My Whole Life Against The Idea Of Simply Dismissing Whole Areas Of Fiction By Saying It's "genre" And Therefore Can't Be Seen As Literature.
Ideas
Fiction
Literature
Where You Think I’m Goan?’ ‘well,’ Eddie Said, ‘what Was Behind Door Number One Wasn’t So Hot, And What Was Behind Door Number Two Was Even Worse, So Now, Instead Of Quitting Like Sane People, We’re Going To Go Right On Ahead And Check Out Door Number Three. The Way Things Have Been Going, I Think It’s Likely To Be Something Like Godzilla Or Ghidra The Three-headed Monster, But I’m An Optimist. I’m Still Hoping For The Stainless Steel Cookware.
Thinking
Numbers
Doors
Isn't It Too Bad That The Great Truths Are All Such Lies.
Lying
Deceit
The Situation Comes First...the Characters...come Next...[then] Begin To Narrate.
Character
Next
Firsts
Things Come In Three Major Degrees In The Human Experience, I Think. There's Good, Bad, And Terrible. And As You Go Down Into Progressive Darkness Towards Terrible, It Gets Harder And Harder To Make Subdivisions.
Thinking
Darkness
Degrees
Clear Communication Between Selves - The Surface Self And The Deep Self - Is The Enemy Of Self-doubt. It Slays Confusion.
Communication
Self
Confusion
So Okay - There You Are In Your Room With The Shade Down And The Door Shut And The Plug Pulled Out Of The Base Of The Telephone. You've Blown Up Your Tv And Committed Yourself To A Thousand Words A Day, Come Hell Or High Water. Now Comes The Big Question: What Are You Going To Write About? And The Equally Big Answer: Anything You Damn Well Want.
Writing
Doors
Water
Whenever Anything Important Happens In America, They Have To Gold-plate It, Like Baby Shoes. That Way You Can Forget It.
Baby
Shoes
America
Good Books Are For Consideration After, Too.
Book
Good Book
Consideration
Mister, We Deal In Lead.
Deals
I'm Convinced That Fear Is At The Root, Of All Bad Writing
Writing
Roots
Airborne
I Love The Movies, And When I Go To See A Movie That's Been Made From One Of My Books, I Know That It Isn't Going To Be Exactly Like My Novel Because A Lot Of Other People Have Interpreted It. But I Also Know It Has An Idea That I'll Like Because That Idea Occurred To Me, And I Spent A Year, Or A Year And A Half Of My Life Working On It.
Movie
Book
Years
And I Wonder If There Is Really Any Point To What I'm Doing, Or What I'm Supposed To Make Of A World Where A Man Can Get Rich Playing "let's Pretend
Men
World
Wonder
For Most Of Us, I Think It's Easier To Admit Doing Wrong Than Being Stupid.
Stupid
Thinking
Easier
Some Part Of Me Knew From The First That What I Wanted Was Not Reality But Myth.
Reality
Firsts
Myth
You've Got To Do Something To Fill Up Your Day. And I Can Only Play So Much Guitar And Watch So Many Tv Shows. It Fulfills Me. There Are Two Things About It I Like: It Makes Me Happy, And It Makes Other People Happy.
Guitar
Tv Shows
Play
One Only Wishes Wayne Lapierre And His Nra Board Of Directors Could Be Drafted To Some Of These Scenes, Where They Would Be Required To Put On Booties And Rubber Gloves And Help Clean Up The Blood, The Brains, And The Chunks Of Intestine Still Containing The Poor Wads Of Half-digested Food That Were Some Innocent Bystander's Last Meal.
Bystanders
Blood
Brain
God Doesn't Bribe, Child. He Just Makes A Sign And Lets People Take It As They Will.
Children
People
Prophecy
Lovecraft Opened The Way For Me, As He Had Done For Others Before Me
Done
Way
Lovecraft
We Either Learn To Accept Or We End Up Writing Letters Home With Crayons.
Home
Writing
Letters
Waiting Rooms Were Made For Books-of Course! But So Are Theater Lobbies Before The Show, Long And Boring Checkout Lines, And Everyone's Favorite, The John.
Book
Reading
Waiting Rooms
All Right I Think We've Been Down Here In The Dark Long Enough. There's A Whole Other World Upstairs. Take My Hand Constant Reader And I'll Be Happy To Lead You Back Into The Sunshine. I'm Happy To Go There Because I Believe Most People Are Essentially Good. I Know That I Am. It's You I'm Not Entirely Sure Of.
Believe
Dark
Sunshine
This Is Probably The Single Great Subject Of Horror Fiction: Our Need To Cope With A Mystery That Can Be Understood Only With The Aid Of A Helpful Imagination.
Imagination
Needs
Fiction
I Am The Literary Equivalent Of A Big Mac And Fries.
Funny
Writing
Literature
Superstition, Like True Love, Needs Time To Grow And Reflect Upon Itself.
Needs
Superstitions
Grows
This Is A Dreadful Thing To Say, But I Have Wondered In My Darker Hours That, If Everything Were Legal, Wouldn't It Be Kind Of A Darwinian Solution To A Lot Of Problems? Who Are The Bikies That You See Who Are Cruisin' Around With No Helmet Or With A Hat Turned Around Like That Yoyo In Cheap Trick? They're Dummies, And If They Splatter Their Brains All Over The Sidewalk, They're Not Going To Be Collecting Food Stamps.
Brain
Be Kind
Hats
The Most Important Things Are The Hardest Things To Say. They Are The Things You Get Ashamed Of, Because Words Diminish Them - Words Shrink Things That Seemed Limitless When They Were In Your Head To No More Than Living Size When They're Brought Out.
Feelings
Important
Size
You Might Question A Winkle - A Feeling That Came To You Right Out Of The Blue - But You Didn’t Question Knowing.
Blue
Knowing
Feelings
I Did Spend Years As An Addict, So I Know That World, Although I Wish I Didn't.
Years
Wish
World
You Cannot Condemn A Man For What May Only Be A Figment Of Your Own Imagination.
Men
Imagination
May
Nobody Likes To See A Stupid Guy Wise Up.
Wise
Stupid
Guy
We're All Going To Die; I'm Just Trying To Make It A Little More Interesting.
Interesting
Trying
Littles
Twas Something Else. I Had Come To Hate Her, You See. I Had Come To Wish Her Dead, And That Was What Held Me Back.
Hate
Wish
Hate Her
Nightmares Exist Outside Of Logic, And There's Little Fun To Be Had In Explanations; They're Antithetical To The Poetry Of Fear.
Fun
Littles
Logic
What You Don’t Know, You Can’t Tell. Or Made To Tell.
Made
Knows
If You Write (or Paint Or Dance Or Sculpt Or Sing, I Suppose), Someone Will Try To Make You Feel Lousy About It, That's All.
Writing
Trying
Paint
Hapscomb's Texaco Sat On Number 93 Just North Of Arnette, A Pissant Four-street Burg About 110 Miles From Houston.
Numbers
Houston
Four
There Are Lots Of Would-be Censors Out There, And Although They May Have Different Agendas, They All Want Basically The Same Thing: For You To See The World They See...or To At Least Shut Up About What You Do See That's Different. They Are Agents Of The Status Quo. Not Necessarily Bad Guys, But Dangerous Guys If You Happen To Believe In Intellectual Freedom.
Believe
Guy
Intellectual
If We Don't Have Each Other, We Go Crazy With Loneliness. When We Do, We Go Crazy With Togetherness.
Crazy
Loneliness
Togetherness
Hearts Are Tough, Most Times They Don't Break. Most Times They Are Only Bend
Heart
Tough
Spiritual Love
You Can't Polish A Turd.
Turds
Polish
I Believe The First Draft Of A Book — Even A Long One — Should Take No More Than Three Months…any Longer And — For Me, At Least — The Story Begins To Take On An Odd Foreign Feel, Like A Dispatch From The Romanian Department Of Public Affairs, Or Something Broadcast On High-band Shortwave Duiring A Period Of Severe Sunspot Activity.
Believe
Book
Long
I Looked At The Ceiling And Wished This Life Was Over. This Unhappy Life That Had Started Out So Confidently. I Thought I Would Sleep No More That Night But Eventually I Did. In The End We Always Wear Out Our Worries. That's What Wire Man Says.
Sleep
Happy Life
Night
Talent Is Never Static. It's Always Growing Or Dying.
Dying
Growing
Talent
The Greatest Mystery The Universe Offers Is Not Life But Size.
Size
Mystery
Dark Tower
Life Is Fair. We All Get The Same Nine-month Shake In The Box, And Then The Dice Roll. Some People Get A Run Of Sevens. Some People, Unfortunately, Get Snake-eyes. Its Just How The World Is.
Running
Eye
Snakes
But It's Hard For A Man To Give Up All His Pleasures, Even When They Don't Pleasure Him No More.
Life
Giving Up
Men
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.
Too Late
Why Not
Influence
Beating Heroin Is Child's Play Compared To Beating Your Childhood.
Children
Play
Childhood
The Worst Advice? 'don't Listen To The Critics.' I Think That You Really Ought To Listen To The Critics, Because Sometimes They're Telling You Something Is Broken That You Can Fix.
Thinking
Broken
Advice
No Writer, Painter, Or Actor - No Artist - Is Ever Handed A Sharp Knife (although A Few People Are Handed Almighty Big Ones; The Name We Give To The Artist With The Big Knife Is 'genius'), And We Hone With Varying Degrees Of Zeal And Aptitude.
Artist
Knives
Names
The Idea That Creative Endeavor And Mind-altering Substances Are Entwined Is One Of The Great Pop-intellectual Myths Of Our Time.
Writing
Ideas
Creative
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