"There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing."

Fear, Pain, Rest

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"There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing."

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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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Dean Koontz, 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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