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"No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection."
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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."
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"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."

"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."

"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."

"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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