But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
H. P. LOVECRAFTIn theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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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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It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared – as it always should be.
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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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Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere ‘assonance’ rather than that of actual rhyme.
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From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
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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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All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.
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The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.
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I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous – that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn’t.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
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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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