# Quote — Stephen King, Danse Macabre

> Perhaps we go to the forbidden door or window willingly because we understand that a time comes when we must go whether we want to or not...and not just to look, but to be pushed through. Forever.

- Author: [Stephen King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king.md)
- Book: [Danse Macabre](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/danse-macabre.md)
- Page: 367
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> ...but talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force...

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> The danse macabre is a waltz with death. This is a truth we cannot afford to shy away from. Like the rides in the amusement park which mimic violent death, the tale of horror is a chance to examine what's going on behind doors which we usually keep double-locked. Yet the human imagination is not content with locked doors. Somewhere there is another dancing partner, the imagination whispers in the night - a partner in a rotting ball gown, a partner with empty eyesockets, green mold growing on her elbow-length gloves, maggots squirming in the thin remains of her hair. To hold such a creature in our arms? Who, you ask me, would be so mad? Well...?

p. 366 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/danse-macabre/the-danse-macabre.md)