Contact Quote by Andrew Pyper

“Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.”

Andrew Pyper

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“All my life I have been pursued by the black dogs of unaccountable gloom”

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There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

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Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

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“And this is the only really startling thing about the evil of the world: not that so much of it exists, but that nobody…

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“I am well and truly messed up.”

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Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.

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Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just…

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“Though it's with you at every moment, it's always something of a surprise to discover that you can be at once alive and alone.”

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I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.

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“The dead boy floats by.”

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If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

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“Darkness isn't the matter from which the Antichrist was formed, but intelligence. Foreknowledge.”

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Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming…

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The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was…

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Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us…

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You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest…

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Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.

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Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top…

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Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more-- since it beats staying…

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