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"People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.The black and the black and the black."
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"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"

"The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one."

"You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there."

"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."

"I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours."

"She spoke of these with animation, and heard my admiring comments with a smile of pleasure: that soon, however, vanished, and was followed by a melancholy sigh; as if in consideration of the insufficiency of all such baubles to the happiness of the human heart, and their woeful inability to supply its insatiate demands."

"One is forever throwing away substance for shadows."
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"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."


"When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the cage of glass between me and the rest of the world - she just laughed. 'You like it,' she said. 'You say you're isolated, boyo, but you really think you're different."


"Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of bright hair about the bone. I did not pray for her, because prayer has no efficacy; I did not cry for her, because only extroverts cry twice; I sat in the silence of that night, that infinite hostility to man, to permanence, to love, remembering her, remembering her."


"Now I understand why you grow so many flowers."She shifted her head, not understanding.I said, "To cover the stink of sulphur."


"There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist."


"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
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