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From Quotes by Peter Straub
- Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on…
- I almost always write everything the way it comes out, except I tend much more to take things out rather than put things in. It's…
- I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.
- From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony.…
- To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational…
- Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.
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