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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

H. P. Lovecraft

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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Connection Emotion Fear Horror Lay Natural Unknown
I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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Beautiful Realism 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
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
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 fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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Demand Enthusiasm Fear Myself Work
One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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Effect Important Vocabulary
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
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
The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.
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Drama Element Greatness Play Reason Terrible Time Universe
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
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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Artificial Follow Practical Religion True
Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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Children Philosophy Point Stick
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
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
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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Black Fascination Form

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

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