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It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-ju...

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator...

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George Bernard ShawThe Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home

A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present;...

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H. P. LovecraftSupernatural Horror in Literature

The image of the "presence," whatever it was, waiting there for him to go--this image had not yet be...

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For him, behind every feeling and thought was the sense of the open door leading into nothingness. T...

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There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each ar...

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He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The dan...

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Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fea...

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And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we st...

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The dread had not left my soul.

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she...

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Something statuesque is approaching her. It radiates a field of dynamic tension that grows more inte...

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Thomas LigottiSongs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she t...

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Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are fluttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your pa...

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It's spider season. Every year, right about now, thousands of the godless eight-legged bastards emer...

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Shadows fell on them like predators as the light went out.

The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of ...

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I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m us...

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David Foster WallaceA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments