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What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing...

Peter Straub

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

Peter Straub

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

Peter Straub

In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")

Peter Straub

You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.

Peter Straub

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

Peter Straub

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

Peter Straub

To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe.A piece of the universe?A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him.

Peter Straub

Peter Straub

Peter Straub

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Born: March 2, 1943

Died: September 4, 2022 (aged 79)

Bio: Peter Francis Straub was an American novelist and poet. His horror fiction has received numerous literary honors such as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award.

Known for:

The Talisman (1984)
Ghost Story (1979)
A Dark Matter (2010)
Floating Dragon (1982)
Shadowland (1980)

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