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"No action so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." --Edmund Burke
"People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true." --Richard Nixon
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust." --T. S. Eliot
"Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair." --T. S. Eliot
"The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground." --Herman Melville, Moby Dick
"I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me."
--Charles Baudelaire
"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they put up." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
"If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood."
--Peter Handke
"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." --Ernest Hemingway
"Every writing career starts as a personal quest for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes more than his soul."
--Joseph Brodsky
"Great writers are the saints of the godless." --Anita Brookner
"The time has come for him to lay aside his pen." --Colette
"If a writer has to rob his mother he will not hesitate; the 'Ode to a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies." --William Faulkner
"Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand!" --Herman Melville, Moby Dick
"It is impossible to discourage real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write." --Sinclair Lewis