Jim Harrison
Novelist, Poet
"Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living."
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Vinnie Paz
Rapper
"I'm the god of war, the resurrector of the horror-core. The carnivore, destroying you wasn't hard at all"
George R. R. Martin
Novelist, Screenwriter
"The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves."
Philip Roth
Novelist
"The horror of being caged has lost its thrill."
Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension."
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"The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great."
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"With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining."
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"Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'."
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"Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history."
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"In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame."
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"There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new."
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"To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois."
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"Horror and moral terror are your friends."
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"Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment."
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"I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas."
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"Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty."
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"To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp."
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"I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make."
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"The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross."
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"In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy."
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"I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic."
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"Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy."
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"I am your number one fan."
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"You are horror and beauty in rare combination."
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"For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're coming from the way humans interact."
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