He did not recognize himself either. He was a totally new being, bald, covered with grease and blood, pink and blue eyed: he was his own baby... He was a great fat chuckling baby, and he shat and peed in his filthy trousers and kept driving.

Peter Straub
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  4. Happiness is the china shop love is the bull. - H.l. Mencken

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More Quotes By Peter Straub
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  2. Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something deep within us, the capacity to conceptualize, objectify and find patterns, thereby to create the flow of events and perceptions that find perfect...

  3. What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.

  4. Of course, the truth is that no one likes change. People in hell not only refuse to leave it, they invite you in, too. Even people who have blasted the other lives that touched their own blasted lives proudly declare in old age that they...

  5. Nothing is whole, not for too damned long. The world is half night.

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