"To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none."
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"You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake."
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"If I be waspish, best beware my sting."
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"The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art."
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
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"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."
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"I had this grand idea that Elvira's kind of the Santa Claus of Halloween - at the malls, you'd have an Elvira there. Girls would dress as Elvira just like guys dress as Santa Claus, and it's not the real thing, but they'll pose for pictures, sign autographs. Of course, I couldn't go around to every mall, so we'd have to get more Elviras."
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"For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare."
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"O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!"
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"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."
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"O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce."
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"He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to hundreds of children at Halloween as an adult; from childhood assistance he received from adults, particularly after his parents divorced, to saying I challenge you to be a caring adult in someone's life ... Great times call forth great leaders."
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"Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!"
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"If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too."
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"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death."
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"Never assume you know where someone else is coming from."
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"Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor."
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"In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!"
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"The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was."
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"Be wary then; best safety lies in fear."
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