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Shadow Quotes


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


"One is forever throwing away substance for shadows."


"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"


"Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance."


"Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult."



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


"I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation."



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



"I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe."



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



"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see."


"The evil components of our shadow are the part of us that we deplore, the part of us that we prefer not to admit. One must set themselves free from all inhibitions in order to initiate close encounters with their innermost monster. By standing toe-to-toe with the part of ourselves that we most detest, a person is in a position to slay their fiendish sense of self and, by doing so, undergo a soulful transformation."



"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."



"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."
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