"If only I'd had a gun! I could've ended his rotten, miserable life right then, if I'd only had a gun!"
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"When I woke up from a nightmare I could not remember - except there had been hands in it, clutching my throat - I found that I had been buried alive."
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"The snakes in pissant little roadside menageries like this one couldn't kill you; their venom was milked twice a week and sold to clinics that made drugs with it."
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"I walked the rest of that day in a kind of daze. It was like I was hypnotized."
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"It was like I was standing outside myself and watching again."
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"The only reason you don't hear about them more often is because people don't like to talk about them...having hallucinations is embarrassing."
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"Howard uttered a deep and primitive howl - a...