Fear Quote by Brock Clarke

““Fear and love might leave a man complacent, but jealousy will always get him out of the van.””

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“Can a story be good only if it produces an effect? If the effect is a bad one, but intended, has the story done…

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“They [my eyes] immediately started to tear up, tears being your eyes' way of forbidding you to look away,of forcing you to look at…

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“I think, that love endures, but that it isn't everything, and it isn't ever what we want it to be...”

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“When he did that, I didn't hate him anymore, I really didn't, and maybe this is why people do so many hateful things to…

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“They looked at each other for a while their gazes steady, unblinking. It was the way people stare at each other not when they're…

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“When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was…

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“When we say we know something in our bones, we mean we don't know yet how we know what we know. This is what…

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“After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be…

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“I could hear the exasperation in her voice, so beautiful and familiar, but sad, too, like hearing church bells right before your funeral.”

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“I had what, I wanted, it was with me, in the room, including the room itself. Was it possible that we hear that voice…

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“In truth I was very pleased with myself and with my story and all that had happened in it. Because you can't help being…

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