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Quote by Cyril Connolly
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. – Cyril Connolly

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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. – Cyril Connolly

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The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. – Cyril Connolly

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Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control. – Virginia C. Andrews

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I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs. – Diane Abbott

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Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. – Andrew Jackson

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Loneliness is, I think, peoples biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not. – Andrew Stanton

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Im currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness. – Julian Clary

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We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off. – Jock Sturges

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