"For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life."
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"I was lucky enough to be a "type." Sort of a bad-guy type at the time, because I was tall and I had dark eyes. A lot of times, you don't have to be good; you just have to be the right type."
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"I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do."
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"But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where all is fiery and yet dark,-a solitary hell, without suffering or sin,-we would do well to commit ourselves to the guidance of a living poet of the true faculty,-Thomas Aird and see with his eyes."
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"He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky."
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"Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world."
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