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“The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.”
― Thomas Berger, Little Big Man

“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...”
― Stephen King

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“ABIGAIL GARDNER NÉE Cuzak was sitting on the bathroom floor, thinking about the relationship that mice in mazes have with death, when a many-splendored light shot down from the stars like a touch of divine Providence.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, She Walks in Shadows

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
― Anais Nin

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
― Horace Mann

“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
― Tom Waits