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Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, ...

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I crossed the yard, wherein the constellations looked down upon me, I could have thought, with wonde...

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for t...

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I thought about the current contamination of beaches, raw sewage spilling into oceans and streams, t...

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Her suspense was terrible.

The Roar of the engine penetrated through Bertram's Hotel from the street outside. Colonel Luscombe ...

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Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

She breathed an enormous sigh, looked at Poirot, Looked away, and suddenly blurted out, "You're too ...

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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The convent...

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There is a distinct difference between "suspense" and "surprise," and yet many pictures continually ...

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Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, anni...

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Arthur SymonsThe Symbolist Movement in Literature

Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I lik...

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I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think...

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

She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment.

Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for...

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All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, t...

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I stood on the outside of disaster, looking in.

He thought that it was all over, finished, done with. Andrew had never yet had reason to observe the...

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When Danny finally got off his knee, he took her by surprise again. He immediately began to tap a nu...

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The dead pull the living down.

The dead pull the living down.

Why did you shoot him?""You weren't around," I replied, my teeth gritted in pain. "If you'd been her...

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Real suspense comes with moral dilemma and the courage to make and act upon choices. False suspense ...

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Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he'd heard the sound of someone trying not...

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John IrvingA Widow for One Year

Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridic...

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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.