"It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too."

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Source : Cornell Woolrich, Francis M. Nevins (2005). “Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories”, p.382, Carroll & Graf

Cornell Woolrich

#Fear Quotes #Dark Quotes #Animal Quotes

“You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.”
“It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.”

Source : Maureen Daly (2010). “Seventeenth Summer”, p.271, Simon and Schuster
“Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.”
“The Civil Rights Commission should never have been brought into existence. It has been most prejudiced in its viewpoint, and has fomented trouble and racial disturbance since its inception. It should be abolished, not extended.”
“Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?”
“...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.”
“From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.”
“Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.”

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