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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.

H. P. Lovecraft

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
We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
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Animal Black Magic Darkness Night
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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Dreams Fake Poet Travel
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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Pursue Revelation Science Truth
Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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Mindset Normal Religious Strict
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
Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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Education Experience Genuine Imagination Potential
Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species – if separate species we be – for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
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Horror Oppression Science Ultimate World
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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Course Fiction Formal Story Writing
That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
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Aristotle Establishment Poetry Principle Pronounce
I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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Beautiful Realism Thinking
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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Dreams Mindset Myself Writing
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
Certain of Poe’s tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
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Absolute Form Light Perfection Possession
A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
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Dog Exception Force Leaving Pity Sleep
There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
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Dare Myself Place Soul

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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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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