"Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of."

-- Shirley Jackson

#Fear Quotes #Stranger Quotes #Poor Quotes

“Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others”
“To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.”

Source : "Teatro Quase Completo" by Nelson Rodrigues, Tempo Brasileiro, (p. 440), 1965.
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

Source : Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.47, Princeton University Press
“I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat--soinstead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself.”
“She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.”
“I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.”
“Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from linguistic to experimental or psychological philosophy. In order to know that we are not in the linguistic maze, we need to determine, according to Berkeley, whether the things we are talking about exist; hence we need to look for the relevant perceptions. For him, this usually means retiring into himself and trying to imagine whether x exists, having formed the best definition possible of x.”
“We can do anything we want to as long as we give it everything we've got.”

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