Horrors, I believe, should be original – the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
H. P. LOVECRAFTAll attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.
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The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
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I could not write about ‘ordinary people’ because I am not in the least interested in them.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic – nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or ‘outsideness’ without laying stress on the emotion of fear.
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Adulthood is hell.
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.
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Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I am well-nigh resolv’d to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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