"But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with."

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"But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with."

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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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"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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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."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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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."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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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."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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