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"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."
"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."
"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
Explore more quotes by Mary Catherine Bateson
"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not."
"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."
"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."
"The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors."
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