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Gloria screamed, but nothing came out. She could feel the scream in her throat, but it was clinging there, too scared to climb out of her mouth. Raymond might have screamed, too--he wasn't sure. His face was an exploding red ball--that was what it felt like. His heart was in the middle of his head. He couldn't see a thing.
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fear
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Roddy Doyle |
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The water, the surf, the colors on the shore. You think they make the beauty of the tropical sea, aye, lad? They do not. 'Tis the knowledge of what lurks below the surface of it, that awful-looking thing, as you call it, that carries death with every move that it makes. So it is, so it is with all beauty.
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danger
death
fear
love
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James M. Cain |
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If you live only for yourself, dying is an especially scary proposition.
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fear
life-lessons
lonely
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Barry Eisler |
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Sometimes it is useful to fear something too much, for it makes the real thing quite bearable.
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fear
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Sarah Dunant |
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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know it. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out. But disbelief is a poorly armed foot soldier. Doubt does away with it with little trouble. You become anxious. Reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superior tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid low. You feel yourself weakening, wavering. Your anxiety becomes dread.
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fear
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Yann Martel |
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His head screamed at him to run.... But his heart...His heart told him to stay and fight, that even if he was deathly afraid, he had to find a way to get the ring away from her. He had to prove to himself that he was brave enough, and that he enough.
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fear
fight
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Melissa de la Cruz |
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It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch.
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fear
love
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Jane Yolen |
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I've chosen fear over faith more times than I can count,' she admitted. 'And every time I did, I ended up with regrets.
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christian-quotes
encouragement
faith
faith-in-god
faith-quotes
fear
inspirational
living-by-faith
regrets-of-yesterday
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Karen Witemeyer |
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Dr. StupidParker says that when I'm sad it really means I'm angry and when I'm angry it really means I'm afraid.
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fear
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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At a deeper level what this whole exchange revealed to me was something disturbing about the way science works. I hadn't quite grasped the role of before. But I could see it in action everywhere here: fear of being 'noticed and monitored by colleagues,' fear of unwanted negative celebrity, fear of indignity, fear of loss of reputation, fear of loss of career--and not for committing some terrible crime but simply for exploring unorthodox possibilities and undertaking 'somewhat controversial research' into what everyone agrees were extraordinary events 12,800 years ago. Worse still, this pervasive state of fear has somehow ingrained itself so deeply into the fabric of science that those who have embraced unorthodox possibilities themselves are often among the least willing to consider unorthodox possibilities embraced by others--lest by doing so they 'contaminate' their own preferred unorthodoxy. How will it ever be possible to discover the truth about the past when so much fear gets in the way?
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controversy
establishment
exploring
fear
science
shills
truth
unorthodoxy
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Graham Hancock |
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Everything started to move in slow motion. A vehicle was coming up the hill in the opposite direction, facing us but in its own lane. With vehicles parked on both sides of the road, this meant that there was just a narrow passage area for both vehicles to pass through. However, he had yet to reduce his speed, and now I knew which car he was going to hit. I was frozen stiff with fear in the front passenger seat, as I helplessly watched him slam into the back of a parked car. I was not wearing a seat belt, so upon impact my head crashed into the windshield. I was then slammed back into my seat, but with such force that everything went black.
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car-accident
car-crash
drunk-driving
fear
reckless-driving
seat-belts
sensing-danger
slow-motion
unconscious
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Drexel Deal |
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God's self-revelation is a higher authority than our feelings.
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bible
fear
god
worry
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Edward T. Welch |
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ddd2748
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When you confront the monster you fear the most, you'll defeat your fears.
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fear
fears
monster
monsters
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David D. Burns |
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You'd probably start laughing because you'd realize that your fears had been the result of a gigantic cosmic joke that had persisted throughout all of your previous reincarnations.
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courage
fear
fears
laughter
reincarnation
scared
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David D. Burns |