Robert Bloch Quotes

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• People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a…
• Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.
• We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.
• So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long,…
• I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
• A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are…
• Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.
• So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.
• Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.
• The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
• Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.
• I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.
• I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.
• Horror is the removal of masks.
• That's the way girls were--they always laughed. Because they were bitches.
• Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or…
• Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.
• Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
• Then she did see it there - just a face, peering through the curtains, hanging in midair like a mask. A head-scarf concealed the hair…
• Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A dark Europe, groaning in superstitious fear, dedicated this…

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