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"But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster."
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
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"The evil thing is inside, not out."
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"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"
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"The real thing about evil, you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret."
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"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."
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"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."
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"Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again."
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"In the world we make good as evil and evil as good."
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"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes."
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"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."
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"The Army was my bread and butter."
Army
"There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time."
Time
"But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all."
Movies
"If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience."
Experience
"If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him."
God
"Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work."
Work
"I have friends who read my books in Greek."
Friendship
"German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case."
Reading
"A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!"
Writing
"Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby."
Army
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