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    Henry James
    “Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.”
    ― Henry James, The art of fiction
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    Arthur Machen
    “The woods hung dark on the hills; above, the sky violet, specked with minute feathery clouds, white as snowflakes.”
    ― Arthur Machen
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    Shirley Jackson
    “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
    tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity
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    Shirley Jackson
    “A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: kindness
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    Henry James
    “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: beauty, english, literature, summer
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    Henry James
    “It's time to start living the life you've imagined.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    Henry James
    “We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
    ― Henry James, The Middle Years
    tags: art
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Guy Burt
    “If we could live all our lives in the present, with no recourse to what has gone before or what might yet be, we would be so much the simpler for it. But in fact the here and now of life is all too often the least considered, while thoughts of the past and expectations of the future conspire to tangle our minds with irreconcilable regrets and hopes."

    "The Hole”
    ― Guy Burt
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    Guy Burt
    “Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom."

    ~ "The Hole”
    ― Guy Burt
    tags: insightful
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    Algernon Blackwood
    “No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least
    inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the
    walls of memory.”
    ― Algernon Blackwood, A Prisoner in Fairyland
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    Arthur Machen
    “I had to cast out a good many lines, though, before I got what I wanted, and when I landed the fish I did not for a moment suppose it was my fish. But I listened to what I was told out of a constitutional liking for useless information, and I found myself in possession of a very curious story, though, as I imagined, not the story I was looking for.”
    ― Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan
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    Arthur Machen
    “We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?”
    ― Arthur Machen, The White People and Other Stories
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: perspective, positive-attitude
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems
    tags: bittersweet, life, songs
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
    tags: kiss, love, nature
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems
    tags: memory, music
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
    tags: empathy-in-writing, imagination, inspirational, writing
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    Stephen King
    “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: horror
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes
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    Robert W. Chambers
    “Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.”
    ― Robert Chambers
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    Horacio Quiroga
    “Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.”
    ― Horacio Quiroga
    tags: story, writing
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    Clark Ashton Smith
    “There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the horror- blackened memories which I have carried so long, were never meant to be borne by the human intellect. ”
    ― Clark Ashton Smith
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    Clark Ashton Smith
    “Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.”
    ― Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds
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    Maeve Brennan
    “Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness. Then what resentful wonder, and what half-aimless seeking. It is a silly state of affairs. It is a silly creature that tries to get a smile from even the most familiar and loving shadow. Comical and hopeless, the long gaze back is always turned inward.”
    ― Maeve Brennan, The Visitor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71567 likes



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