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"I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien."
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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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"Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture."
Money
"I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger."
Danger
"Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney."
History
"My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick."
Family
"I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it."
People
"Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book."
Writing
"Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am."
Now
"I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien."
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"I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book."
Media
"Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo."
Past
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