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"Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself."
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"I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced."
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"The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me."
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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."
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"Fear attracts attack."
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"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."
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"Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal."
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"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."
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"Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself."
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"We are too scared to be real!"
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"Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history."
History
"Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun."
Fear
"The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years."
Time
"The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet."
Loyalty
"Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor."
Creativity
"I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday."
Art
"Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity."
Books
"I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort."
Science
"More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work."
Work
"The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief."
Trust
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