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“I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“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...”
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“As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.”
― Cleopatra: A Life
― Cleopatra: A Life
“Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Conversations With Tennessee Williams
― Conversations With Tennessee Williams
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