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"This is what fun is like," said Rain, almost to herself."
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"I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park."
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"This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it."
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"I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine."
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"I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over."
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"I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends."
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"Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills."
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"This is what fun is like," said Rain, almost to herself."
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"But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see."
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"This is what fun is like," said Rain, almost to herself."
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"It isn't hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow."
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"The real thing about evil, you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret."
Evil

"What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine."
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"One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is at the very least a question of definitions."
Morality

"To the grim poor there need be no pourquoi tale about where evil arises; it just arises; it always is. One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her--is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil...?"
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"We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out."
Life

"Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face."
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"Night is brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away."
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