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  • Anton Chekhov All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Georges Bataille Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Brooke Shields Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein For any child, boy or girl, a father is both Jedi and Sith: Obi-Wan Kenobi - gentle and calming and good - and Vader, fierce and terrifying.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Abel Hermant I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like: it is terrifying.
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  • Annie Dillard I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Cesare Pavese If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • David Mamet In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Clive Barnes Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want.
    Clive Barnes
    English writer and critic (1927 - 2008)
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  • Cordell Hull That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.
    Cordell Hull
    American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944 (1871 - 1955)
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  • Ronald Reagan The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
    Press conferentie, 12-08-1986
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Salvador Dali The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • E. L. Doctorow The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
    E. L. Doctorow
    American writer (1931 - 2015)
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  • Bruce Catton There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Daniel Defoe Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
    Robinson Crusoe (1719)
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Henry Miller Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Carre Otis You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.
    Carre Otis
    American model and actress (1968 - )
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