"Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him."

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Source : Robert Bloch (2010). “Psycho: A Novel”, p.5, The Overlook Press

Robert Bloch

#Noise Quotes #Shock Quotes #Heard Quotes

“...we need to realize that we have a role to play in overcoming our own discrimination which is sometimes very subtly held...”
“I don't fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me. It makes me weepy... but I don't think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.”

Source : "Destiny’s daughter". Interview with Ginny Dougary, www.thetimes.co.uk. April 28, 2007.
“I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish.”
“The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a saint is humility-Yes, all those things and other evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I have no right to judge.”
“I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediately”
“Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation and our future. His argument for the morality, the honesty, and the humility of atheism is galvanizing. It is a relief that someone has spoken so frankly, with such passion yet such rationality. Now when the subject arises, as it inevitably does, I can simply say: Read Sam Harrisâ€™ Letter to a Christian Nation.”
“Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.”
“Acting careers are very interesting things. They come with a lot of ups and downs. You just have to ride the waves and bide your time during the lulls, and enjoy the high times when they're there.”

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