"As for her perfume, it was the kind……" — Cornell Woolrich
"As for her perfume, it was the kind you only noticed after she'd left a room, not while she was still in it. Even then you didn't realize it was perfume, you only wondered what had made you think of her just then."
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20 Quotes by Cornell Woolrich
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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…
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Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on…
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I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all…
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Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.
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It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died…
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The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment.…
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Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more.…
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It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks…
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I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just…
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You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a…
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I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills,…
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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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