106 Quotes by Peter Straub
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You know how when a woman gets angry, really angry, she can reach way back into herself and find rage enough to blow any man to pieces.
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As for what I’m doing now,” he said, “I guess I’m trying to bring the past to life.
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Every night he comes thudding out of sleep drenched in sweat and staring into the dark. Something huge and scaly is twisting away into nothingness. There you are again, he thinks. There you are, old friend.
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She thought it was too bad it didn’t work the other way around, so you could get braver and smarter as you move up in years. But.
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Nice days, terrible nights.
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Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. The ordinary world of work is closed to him – and that if he’s lucky!
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Students set up desks where you could sign petitions for legalizing marijuana or declare yourself in favor of homosexuality and the protection of whales; students thronged by.
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Most people will tell you growing up means you stop believing in Halloween things – I’m telling you the reverse. You start to grow up when you understand that the stuff that scares you is part of the air you breathe.
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In Classical Greek the word pathos was the same for both suffering and experience. Those Greeks knew a good joke when they heard one.
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