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"The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."
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"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."
"There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away."
"Fear totally obliterates a person, it makes people tolerate what is impossible to handle."
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"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."
"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."
"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."
"Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action."
"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."
"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."
"A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends."
"A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out."
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