32 Quotes from 11/22/63 book by Stephen King

Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 32 quotes from 11/22/63 book by Stephen King that I underlined while reading the 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

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.

More Quotes

My little life was about to change. But we never know, do we? Life turns on a dime.
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.
When you try to change the past, it bites. It'll tear your throat out if you give it the chance.
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.