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![“Everybody wants to psychoanalyze horror. They don't want to psychoanalyze a book like Gay Talese's "Sex with Your Neighbor" [sic] or something like that. It's pretty much accepted that Americans should be interested in who they're diddling and how they're doing it.” quote by Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbb/stephen-king-13_accepted_everybody-wants-to-psychoanalyze-horror_3005442.jpg)
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