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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

H. P. Lovecraft

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!
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Beautiful Instrument Man Pay Responsive World
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
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Ancient Dreams Memories Mountain Ocean Ourselves Time
Heaven knows where I’ll end up – but it’s a safe bet that I’ll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
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Care Heaven Known Myself Safety Top
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
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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Business Dreams Interest Man Thinking
Write out the story – rapidly, fluently, and not too critically – following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.
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Change Design Development Follow Story Writing
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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Cosmic Joke Kind Man World
Man’s respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.
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Constitution Environment Limitation Man Mental Respect Training
Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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Children Philosophy Point Stick
Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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Atmosphere Greatness Human Mood
From my experience, I cannot doubt but that man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life of far different nature from the life we know; and of which only the slightest and most indistinct memories linger after waking.
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Conscious Doubt Experience Life Man Memories Wake Up
One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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Effect Important Vocabulary
Horrors, I believe, should be original – the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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Believe Common Influence Legend Weakness
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
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Demon Hide Known Life Ourselves Secret Truth
One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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Care Description Essential Mindset Reading Selection
I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider’d but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg’d in with infrequency and Discrimination.
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Accomplishment Literature Myself Writing

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