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"Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining."
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"If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end."

"Quiet anger frightens me. The drunks, the idiots, the ones that rage easily - them I can handle. I know when to step out of their way. It's the ones that hold the anger in, the men that think about what they do and how they do it, that scare me. They're the ones that cause damage."

"Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining."
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