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That's the way girls were — they always laughed. Because they were bitches.

Robert Bloch

Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one, fulfills a function. Drive it into a crucial place and you can depend on it to do a job, keep on doing it for a hundred years to come. Long after we're dead and gone, both of us.

Robert Bloch

All at once she could hear the sullen patter of the rain and sense the sigh of the wind behind it. She remembered the sound, because it had rained like that the day Mom was buried, the day they lowered her into that little rectangle of darkness.

Robert Bloch

Magic — that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

Robert Bloch

The room was plainly but adequately furnished; she noted the shower stall in the bathroom beyond. Actually, she would have preferred a tub, but this would do.

Robert Bloch

Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.

Robert Bloch

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

Robert Bloch

Robert Bloch

Robert Bloch

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Born: April 5, 1917

Died: September 23, 1994 (aged 77)

Bio: Robert Albert Bloch was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock.

Known for:

Psycho (1959)
Psycho House (1990)
Psycho II (1982)
Robert Bloch's Psychos
Mysteries of the Worm (1981)

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