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- 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…
- 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…
- 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 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.
- 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…
- 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…
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