“Soon as he sat down, Joe saw it in his face clear as a stream - fear. It lived back behind his eyes, leaked out of his pores. Most people didn't see it because they mistook its public faces - hatred and ill temper - for rage. But Joe had studied it for two years in Charlestown, and he'd discovered that the worst of the men in there were also the most terrified - terrified of being found out as cowards or, worse, victims, themselves, of other terrible and terrified men.”
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“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen.”
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“The house did not shelter. It devoured.”
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