"After she's gone, another brief lull sets in.……" — Cornell Woolrich
"After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell in which to get more frightened. Because anticipatory fear is always twice as strong as present fear. Anticipatory fear has both fears in it at once - the anticipatory one and the one that comes simultaneously with the dread happening itself. Present fear only has the one, because by that time anticipation is over."
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Cornell Woolrich
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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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