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Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.

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Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.
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Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in-slippers. Their clumsy affections, their bristly faces, and their willingness to do what needed to be done - cook an omelette, change lightbulbs, make with hugging - sometimes almost made being a woman fun.
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Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.
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I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.
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I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.
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Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.
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The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.
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I didn't know the inner me was hungry, I said to Art. That's because it already starved to death.
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... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.
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Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?
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It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.
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Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?
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There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.
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I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.
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Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.
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A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.
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Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know any better. That’s innocence
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Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.
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