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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.

H. P. Lovecraft

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Horror Mistake Silence Solitude
I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
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Furniture Library Live Possession Sleep
The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.
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Culture Desire Honor Man Nation
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
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Appearance Chronicle Ingredient Race Terrorism
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
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Hero Poem Rhyme Success
Adulthood is hell.
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Adult Hell One Liner
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
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Creation Ideal Myself Taste World
The most merciful thing in the world, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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Content Human Mercy Mindset World
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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Book Old Secret Wonderful
Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement.
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Amusement Boredom Himself Polite Throw
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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Demand Enthusiasm Fear Myself Work
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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Black Fascination Form
Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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Accomplishment Emotional Mindset Play Relieve
One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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Effect Important Vocabulary
From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
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Absent Greatness Horror Irony
My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.
H. P. LOVECRAFT

Boredom Interest List Nervous Save System

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