The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light.

Anonymous
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  3. The road to hell is paved with adverbs. - Stephen King

  4. Fiction is the truth inside the lie. - Stephen King

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  1. Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

  2. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  3. The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

  4. We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.

  5. Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

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