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"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table."
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"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."
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"The evil thing is inside, not out."
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"The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person."
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"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
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"Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast."
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
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"Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it."
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"We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet."
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"An evil woman sends her husband away and wails her evil fate."
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"I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful."
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"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
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"Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another."
Experience
"If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away."
Time
"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."
Relationship
"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
People
"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."
Friendship
"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."
Writing
"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
Want
"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
Age
"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
Love
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