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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…

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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…
Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very…
I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life…
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…
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…
Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more. Fear that…
It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he's missing…
I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just saying to…
You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in…
I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist;…
All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.

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