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Peter Straub Quote: “Privilege encased them, surrounded them like armor. In the cast of their faces was the assumption that they would never have to take anything very seriously. For the first time in my life I saw the truth in the old proposition that the rich were better-looking.”

51. “Privilege encased them, surrounded them like armor. In the cast of their faces was the assumption that they would never have to take anything very seriously. For the first time in my life I saw the truth in the old proposition that the rich were better-looking.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.”

52. “When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “It seemed that if you listened to that snow hissing long enough, you wouldn’t just hear it telling you that it was waiting for you, you’d hear some terrible secret – a secret to turn your life black.”

53. “It seemed that if you listened to that snow hissing long enough, you wouldn’t just hear it telling you that it was waiting for you, you’d hear some terrible secret – a secret to turn your life black.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “I almost always write everything the way it comes out, except I tend much more to take things out rather than put things in. It’s out of a desire to really show what’s going on at all times, how things smell and look, as well as from the knowledge that I don’t want to push things too quickly through to climax; if I do, it won’t mean anything. Everything has to be earned, and it takes a lot of work to earn.”

54. “I almost always write everything the way it comes out, except I tend much more to take things out rather than put things in. It’s out of a desire to really show what’s going on at all times, how things smell and look, as well as from the knowledge that I don’t want to push things too quickly through to climax; if I do, it won’t mean anything. Everything has to be earned, and it takes a lot of work to earn.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.”

55. “I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “She tasted what she had said and found it sour enough to be accurate.”

56. “She tasted what she had said and found it sour enough to be accurate.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “As for what I’m doing now,” he said, “I guess I’m trying to bring the past to life.”

57. “As for what I’m doing now,” he said, “I guess I’m trying to bring the past to life.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “What we do here is physiologically impossible. So we must train the body to accept the impossible, and then it will become possible.”

58. “What we do here is physiologically impossible. So we must train the body to accept the impossible, and then it will become possible.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.”

59. “Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “Sometimes, it seems like sighted people can hardly see anything.”

60. “Sometimes, it seems like sighted people can hardly see anything.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “Students set up desks where you could sign petitions for legalizing marijuana or declare yourself in favor of homosexuality and the protection of whales; students thronged by.”

61. “Students set up desks where you could sign petitions for legalizing marijuana or declare yourself in favor of homosexuality and the protection of whales; students thronged by.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.”

62. “Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.”

63. “I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “Being with his father was like watching somebody drown.”

64. “Being with his father was like watching somebody drown.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “Everything here is a lie,” Rose said. “Just because you saw it doesn’t mean it really happened.” Tom nodded. He was curiously reluctant to take up this hope she offered. If he reached out, it might bite his hand.”

65. “Everything here is a lie,” Rose said. “Just because you saw it doesn’t mean it really happened.” Tom nodded. He was curiously reluctant to take up this hope she offered. If he reached out, it might bite his hand.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “Nice days, terrible nights.”

66. “Nice days, terrible nights.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “But you do not reject the supernatural out of hand,′ Sears said. ‘I don’t know if I do or do not,’ I said. ‘Like most people.”

67. “But you do not reject the supernatural out of hand,′ Sears said. ‘I don’t know if I do or do not,’ I said. ‘Like most people.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “He was having, under trying circumstances, the best time he could, which is one definition of heroism;.”

68. “He was having, under trying circumstances, the best time he could, which is one definition of heroism;.”

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Peter Straub Quote: “She thought it was too bad it didn’t work the other way around, so you could get braver and smarter as you move up in years. But.”

69. “She thought it was too bad it didn’t work the other way around, so you could get braver and smarter as you move up in years. But.”

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