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"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say."
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"Then the dwarves forgot their joy and their confident boasts of a moment before and cowered down in fright. Smaug was still to be reckoned with. It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
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"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."
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"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."
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"Fear deprives us the fullness of existence."
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"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."
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"A monster's worst fear is of being found."
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"It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth."
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"Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it."
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"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."
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"How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next-if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions-you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."
Art
"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."
Life
"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
Fear
"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."
Life
"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."
Books
"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
Work
"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."
Family
"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."
Faith
"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."
Imagination
"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."
Will
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