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Faith is, by its very definition, belief without proof.

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I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see...more

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Last reason for reading horror: it’s a rehearsal for death. It’s a way to get ready. People say there’s nothing sure but death and taxes. But that’s n...more

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One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

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The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

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To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.

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Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.

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When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs-

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Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.

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Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight.

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The monster nevers dies.

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Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.

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Remember that "seeing is believing" puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world ...more

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Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is only another way of saying that he is the way she...more

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Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.