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Horror Quotes
"I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty."
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"Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too."
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"I've been reading horror since I was five years old."
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"The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror."
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"Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror."
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"Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch."
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"Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror."
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"The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation."
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"I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes."
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"As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey."
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"And the moment she held that diary in her hands, she summoned all her demons at once. The moment she opened it a hand from every page held her and pulled her inside. And in a moment even before she could realize what was happening to her she was drowning in the sea, fighting to breathe and fighting to swim back to the surface. But the hands kept pulling her down deep into the darkness until her voice died slowly."
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"Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics."
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"The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me."
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"Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects."
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"Fear envelops bones like new skin,envelops blood with night's skin,the earth moves beneath the soles of the feet -it is not your hair but the terror in your head,like long hair made of vertical nails,and what you see are not shattered streets,but rather, within you, your own crushed walls,your frustrated infinity, again the city comescrashing down: in your silence, only water's threatis heard, and in the waterdrowned horses gallop through your death."
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"I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning."
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"Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural."
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"This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level."
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"What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me."
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"You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes."
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"The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag."
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"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."
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"So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing."
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"People are often wary of reading or watching anything in the horror genre because in their minds, it's just senseless gore, death and violence. Well, I can tell you from avid experience, that's not what horror is about. The horror genre teaches us that sometimes really bad things happen to really good people, but that hope always prevails in even the darkest of situations. That's a very important lesson, no matter how frightening you think the teacher is, and to be in the top of her class, all you need to do is to go in with an open mind."
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"I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural."
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"I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect."
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"I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary."
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"All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps."
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"The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking."
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"As Roran watched, the man's arms, neck, and chest shriveled, and his bones appeared in sharp relief-from the bowlike curve of his collarbones to the hollow saddle of his hips, where his stomach hung like an empty waterskin. His lips puckered and drew back farther than they were intended to over his yellow teeth, baring them in a grisly snarl, while his eyeballs deflated as if they were engorged ticks being squished empty of blood, and the surrounding flesh sank inward."
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"If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up."
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"I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror."
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"It is hard to explain just how a single sight of a tangible object with measurable dimensions could so shake and change a man, and we may only say that there is about certain outlines and entities a power of symbolism and suggestion which acts frightfully on a sensitive thinker's perspective and whispers terrible hints of obscure cosmic relationships and unnamable realities behind the protective illusions of common vision."
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"I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity."
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"A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror."
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"I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do."
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"I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way."
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"I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom."
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"If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?"
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