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Joe Hill Labor Activist, Songwriter
Horror

"Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy."

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Jordan Peele Filmmaker, Actor
Horror

"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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Aleister Crowley Occultist, Writer
Horror

"Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty."

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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
Horror

"I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre."

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
Horror

"The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable"

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