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• I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Wind, People, Tides

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• I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We're capable of incredible things. At times, that realization is frightening.

  Alicia Keys

  Believe, Realization, Incredibles

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• Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.

  Omer Bartov

  Holocaust, Humanity, Survival

  Omer Bartov (2000). “Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity”, p.176, Oxford University Press

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• It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of personality. Vanity says, "I must have this because I am me." It is a frightening thing because it is incurable.

  Josephine Tey

  Real, Thinking, Vanity

  Josephine Tey (1952). “The singing sands”, Vintage

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• You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Christian, Believe, Gay

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Frightening for many artists is promoting themselves. They feel it is... artificial and not what we want to be known for. Yet if we start thinking about what we do as important and important to offer to people, not to sell... it allows us to shift the way we think about promoting ourselves.

  Adam Leipzig

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• The elements in a relationship which seem impossible to share, the secretly disturbing, dissatisfying elements, are the most rewarding to share. This is a hard, risky, frightening thing to learn, and it needs to be re-learned over and over.

  Carl Rogers

  Needs, Elements, Impossible

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• Rock & roll is dying. It’s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now.

  Kurt Cobain

  Thinking, Rocks, Years

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• There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Player, Speech, Action

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• Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his motherfor rootedness and anchoring. He can count on his father to be just different enough from a mother. Fathers embody a delicious mixture of familiarity and novelty. They are novel without being strange or frightening.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Baby, Father

  Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Simon & Schuster

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• We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Failure, Thinking, Cost

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• UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Gorgeous, Tales, Spun

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• We say, 'Shall we meet for a drink?', as though drinking were the main end of the appointment, and the matter of company only incidental, we are so shy about admitting our need for one another.[...]We say, 'Would you like to come for some coffee?', as though it were less frightening to acknowledge that we are heavily dependent on mildly stimulating drinks, than to acknowledge that we are at all dependent on the companionship of other people.

  Jonathan Coe

  Drinking, Coffee, People

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• It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family and therefore a really wonderful experience.

  Ann Dowd

  Cameras, Armor, Want

  "Interview with Ann Dowd, Star of ‘Compliance’". www.indiewire.com. August 17, 2012.

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• How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

  Colleen McCullough

  Mean, That One Person, Persons

  Colleen McCullough (1977). “The Thorn Birds”

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• How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Life, Art, Accomplishment

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• I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Climate, Elements, Conclusion

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• Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex.

  Laura Riding

  Sex, Couple, Hungry

  "Anarchism Is Not Enough". Book by Laura Riding. Chapter: "The Damned Thing", 1928.

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• Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

  Anton Chekhov

  Russia, Suffering, Poverty

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures. Everywhere we look we see brutality, stupidity, until it seems that there is nothing else to be seen but that--a descent into barbarism, everywhere, which we are unable to check. But I think that while it is true there is a general worsening, it is precisely because things are so frightening we become hypnotized, and do not notice--or if we notice, belittle--equally strong forces on the other side, the forces, in short, of reason, sanity and civilization.

  Doris Lessing

  Strong, Thinking, Civilization

  Doris Lessing (2013). “Prisons We Choose to Live Inside”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so many nations steadfastly hewed to the very course which he insisted would lead to their undoing.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Determination, Looks, Undoing

  Robert L. Heilbroner (2011). “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.

  Chris Carter

  Trying, Want, Copies

  Source: www.680news.com

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• Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.

  Jenny Hval

  Healthy, Enemy, Important

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I do find it therapeutic, writing about stuff that was frightening and painful as a child, and managing to see it from an adult's point of view. To get it out of the closet onto paper, metaphorically speaking, is therapeutic.

  Julie Walters

  Children, Writing, Views

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• The body should not just be something you see. It's also the inside of it. It's frightening and abstract and much more than pretty or not pretty. The shape of it is boring.

  Jenny Hval

  Body, Shapes, Boring

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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