Cornell Woolrich Quotes

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• It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed…
• Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very selfsame inch of…
• I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew…
• Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.
• It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died already. It is the endless…
• The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a…
• Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more. Fear that no weapon, no…
• It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he's missing a lot by…
• I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just saying to Cliff only tonight,…
• You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin…
• I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then…
• All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.
• After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell…
• It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is…
• The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of…
• As for her perfume, it was the kind you only noticed after she'd left a room, not while she was still in it. Even then…
• I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up…
• I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The future was resignation,…
• Beside her, her husband could only splutter, and he stopped even that when she half turned to flash him a smile - the instinctive, brilliant…
• It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can…

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