“I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.”

—  Cornell Woolrich

Source: Blues of a Lifetime: The Autobiography of Cornell Woolrich

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American author and screenwriter 1903–1968

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