"In violence there is often the quality of……" — Peter Straub
"In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")"
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42 Quotes by Peter Straub
Peter Straub has 42 quotes on this site.
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There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed…
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I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
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Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a…
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Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.
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Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and…
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I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.
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God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
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Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of…
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I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
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When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a…
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Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.
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Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
— Hannah Arendt
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust…
— Annie Besant
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
— Geraldine Brooks
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will…
— John Calvin
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Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are…
— Ronald Reagan
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
— Germaine Greer
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When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and…
— Herophilos
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When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade…
— R. T. Kendall
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
— Lucretius
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