Top 62 Robert Bloch Quotes

#1. Talk about not knowing other people - why, when you came right down to it, you didn't even know yourself!

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#2. 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.

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#3. We all go a little mad sometimes.

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#4. The light shone down on his plump face, reflected from his rimless glasses, bathed the pinkness of his scalp beneath the thinning sandy hair as he bent his head to resume reading.

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#5. A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.

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#6. Their smiles were cracking. Glass is brittle.

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#7. So I had this problem
work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.

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#8. Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.

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#9. But first he was going to take a drink, a big drink, because he needed one. And it didn't matter whether he drank or not, nothing mattered now; it was all over. All over, or just beginning.

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#10. The sun surrendered its splendor - why, it was like poetry; he was a poet; Norman smiled. He was many things. If they only knew - - But

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

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#12. Norman stirred, turned, and then fell into a darkness deeper and more engulfing than the swamp.

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#13. The thought came creeping, just as the numbness came creeping, stealing over his senses, softly, smoothly, there in the silken silence.

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#14. Forget the past, let the dead bury the dead. Things were working out fine, and that was the only thing he had to remember.

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#15. Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

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#16. No trouble at all. Mother's gone back to bed, and she won't be doing any cooking - I was only going to set out some cold cuts and make some coffee. If that's all right with you." "Well -

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#17. There's nothing to this telepathy business. It's all in the mind.

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#18. What kind of a hick town is this, anyway?" she murmured. "A bank is held up and the sheriff is in church. What's he doing, praying that somebody will catch the robbers for him?

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#19. A week ago, Norman would never have dared. But this wasn't a week ago, it was now, and things were different. It was now, and he had to face the truth.

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

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#21. But meanwhile he had to do something about the way his heart pounded.

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#22. The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

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#23. I know why you didn't bother to switch on the sign. I know why you haven't even gone up to open the office tonight. You didn't really forget. It's just that you don't want anyone to come, you hope they don't come." "All

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#24. Mother would be in real trouble right now.

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#25. We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

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#26. Forget the pat, let the dead burry the dead.

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#27. The car was in the swamp. And the hamper was in the trunk. And the body was in the hamper. The twisted torso and the bloody head. But he couldn't think about that. He mustn't. There were other things to do.

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#28. I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister

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#29. Lila closed her mouth, but the scream continued. It was the insane scream of an hysterical woman, and it came from the throat of Norman Bates.

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#30. Once you began speculation about that, once you admited to yourself that you didn't really know how another person's mind operated, then you came up against the ultimate admission - anything was possible.

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#31. Norman Bates will never die...

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#32. And then, as he ripped back the shower curtains and stared down at the hacked and twisted thing sprawled on the floor of the stall, he realized that Mother had used her keys.

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#33. Besides, that thing was waiting for him. Waiting for him -

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#34. Sam, what do you think happened?

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#35. I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

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#36. She was afrad of him, now. Yes, she must be. Because not once, all through this, had she called him "son".

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#37. Horror is the removal of masks.

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#38. Strange how everyone tried to disguise truth with nonsense. Like the slang for death: kicking the bucket, wiped out, snuffed, wasted, blown away. The light touch to dispel the heavy fear.

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#39. He managed to retain a cheerful smile at all times - though, in the dreams, he screamed.

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#40. Evil exists everywhere. Sometimes I think our limited senses are designed to protect us from awareness of its presence. We trust them to provide us with knowledge but it may be that they block out realization of horrors we cannot bear.

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#41. Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.

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#42. That was still my meat - the true-detective yarn. I picked it up and started to read it over, wondering for the ten thousandth time why so many people are interested in crime and its solution.

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#43. It's all right", he said, wondering at the same time why there were no better words, why there never are any better words to answer fear and grief and loneliness. "It's all right, believe me.

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#44. Yes, Norman, I suppose you're right. That's where I'd probably be. But I wouldn't be there alone." Norman slammed the door, locked it, and turned away. He wasn't quite sure, but as he ran up the cellar steps he thought he could still hear her chuckling gently in the dark.

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#45. She'd thrown something at the mirror, and then the mirror broke into a thousand pieces and she knew that wasn't all; she was breaking into a thousand pieces, too.

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#46. I'VE never seen such a look of mortal agony on a human face before. She screamed quite a bit before she died, and the last shriek was forever frozen on her face.

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#47. Trivial," he echoed. "Perhaps. Then again, maybe it's all in the way you look at it

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#48. A boy's best friend is his mother.

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#49. The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

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#50. I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

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#51. Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly...

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#52. Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

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#53. But she didn't listen, she was in the bathroom, she was getting dressed, she was putting on make-up, she was getting ready. Getting ready.

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#54. 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.

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#55. People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a small child - I keep it in a jar on my desk.

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#56. So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.

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#57. As she reached the landing, the thunder came. The whole house seemed to shake with it.

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#58. 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.

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#59. 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.

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#60. Murder was a terrible thing. Even if you're not quite right in the head, you can realize that much. Mother must be suffering quite a bit. Perhaps

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#61. I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

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#62. If she sat there without moving, they wouldn't punish her. If she sar there without moving, they'd know that she was sane, sane, sane.

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