Hi Kurben
I haven't read Rebecca, but I have seen the movie with Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. If I recall it was directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Favourite Passages from S.K's Works
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I haven't read Rebecca, but I have seen the movie with Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. If I recall it was directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Yes, that was the movie i thought about. I think it is not so much Fontaine and Olivier as the woman that plays the housekeeperthat makes it great. She was great. Forget her name. I can recommend the book by Daphne De Maurier. It is great. It was also she that wrote the screenplay and the short story that the Birds by Hitchcock is based on.
I understand, Ms. Noir, I got confused. I thought you meant quotes of his in the press or something. I meant that there should be a dedicated post where the reader of any of his works likes a particular sentence or passage can share it on this website. I mean, you'd have to be an idiot to type out ten pages from one of his books.Thanks Frank.After reading through it though, I think that thread is not quite what was suggested above, so might start a new one if the OP wishes to.
When I said 'quotes' I meant content, quoted straight from his stories, sorry to confuse.
For legal reasons, the passages would have to be reasonably short though, so as not to breach copyright issues.
“This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know--by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time.” -Revival.
"If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and rounded, as the chick must see the egg from the inside. And if you should peck through that shell, what great and torrential light might shine through your hole at the end of space? Might you look through and discover our entire universe is but part of one atom on a blade of grass?
The Gunslinger
The Gunslinger
Her name is Dame Judith Anderson, and she was great in that role.
At our house its all about the words! When you have a stomach ache, bowel trouble or find something you can't identify laying on the floor it's a "**** weasel", when we are unable to connect to one another via our mobile devices, then our mobile devices have "gone gomer", we do call small pieces of scratch paper "scrids", I refer to our neighborhood cook-offs and drink gatherings as "having a natter", I have on occasion asked upon entering the house after work "is everything the same", gee I bet if my boss would allow me to be paid to sit here long enough I could think of a lot more of S.K. words we use at our house lol!
My favourite sayings are - "Done, bun, can't be undone" - "SSDD same sh1t, different day" - " sh1t eating grin"
America has turned the people who entertain into weird high-class whores, and the media jeers at any “celeb” who dares complains about his or her treatment.”Quitcha bi*chin!” cry the newspapers and the TV gossip shows (the tone is one of mingled triumph and indignation). “Didja really think we paid ya the big bucks just to sing a song or swing a Lousville Slugger? Wrong a**hole! We pay so we can be amazed when you do it well – whatever ‘it’ happens to be in your particular case –and also because it’s gratifying when you f**k up. The truth is you’re supplies. If you cease to be amusing, we can always kill you and eat you”
–Stephen King Bag of Bones
–Stephen King Bag of Bones
Dame Judith Anderson is the definitive Mrs. Danvers--creepy as all get out.
One of my favorites is from Ms. Wilkes: "It's a cockadoodie cheat!" Not profound, but I use that phrase very, very often
“The George George Stark George Starked over the Starky Stark.”
Now, cats, I'm not about to type all the entire passage from Wolves of the Calla, but that scene when Callahan first meets the Gunslingers, how Eddie is so glad to meet someone from his world, is about to introduce Roland to the 'Pere', when said holy man from Salems Lot drops down to one knee, does the salute-gesture, says "Hile, Gunslinger" and all that. That scene really brought it home to me, how this was the King universe, ka is a wheel, yadda yak yak. So damn cool.
Oh dang, and in Wastelands, crossing the bridge into Lud--are you kidding me? Goosebumps.
Aw geez, and in Wizard and Glass, that scene with the young Gunslingers and the old Coffin Hunters in a stand off in the saloon...
Ah, but these are scenes, not really passages, muskie. Think hard...hmmm...okay, how's this?
"Dad-a-chuck?"
Oh dang, and in Wastelands, crossing the bridge into Lud--are you kidding me? Goosebumps.
Aw geez, and in Wizard and Glass, that scene with the young Gunslingers and the old Coffin Hunters in a stand off in the saloon...
Ah, but these are scenes, not really passages, muskie. Think hard...hmmm...okay, how's this?
"Dad-a-chuck?"
From 11/22/63 passage. " You're a chickenshit coward, Turcotte. Hiding over here like a rabbit in a hole."
" Shut up!"
" Telling yourself some bullshit about how seeing him in prison would be the best revenge so you don't have to face the fact--"
" Shut up!"
--" that your a nutless wonder who lets his sister's murderer walk around free for over twenty years."
" I'm warning you!"He cocked the revolvers hammer.
I thumped the middle of my chest. " Go on. Do it. Everybody'll hear the shot, the police will come, Dunning'll see the ruckus and
turn right around, and you'll be the one in Shawshank.
" Shut up!"
" Telling yourself some bullshit about how seeing him in prison would be the best revenge so you don't have to face the fact--"
" Shut up!"
--" that your a nutless wonder who lets his sister's murderer walk around free for over twenty years."
" I'm warning you!"He cocked the revolvers hammer.
I thumped the middle of my chest. " Go on. Do it. Everybody'll hear the shot, the police will come, Dunning'll see the ruckus and
turn right around, and you'll be the one in Shawshank.
I know SK is not big on "catch phrases", but I know he is infinitely quotable. I have a favorite quote. It's from "Insomnia": "It's a long walk back to Eden, sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff".
When things get hectic and/or stupid with my life, I think about this quote and it puts it into perspective.
What is some of you guys favorite quotes?
When things get hectic and/or stupid with my life, I think about this quote and it puts it into perspective.
What is some of you guys favorite quotes?
Hey kendelrio, we had this thread in place which is basically the same thing so I merged the two.