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  • #1
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #3
    Clive Barker
    “It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that
    phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.”
    Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volume Two

  • #4
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #5
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #6
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
    H. P. Lovecraft

  • #9
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
    H.P. Lovecraft

  • #10
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
    H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

  • #11
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
    H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

  • #12
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
    H. P. Lovercraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

  • #13
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”
    H. P. Lovecraft

  • #14
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Never Explain Anything”
    H.P. Lovecraft

  • #15
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.”
    H.P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany

  • #16
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be.
    Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...”
    H.P. Lovecraft

  • #17
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”
    H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: life

  • #18
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.”
    H.P. Lovecraft

  • #19
    Clive Barker
    “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
    Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

  • #20
    Clive Barker
    “Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love”
    Clive Barker

  • #21
    Clive Barker
    “We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.”
    Clive Barker, Imajica

  • #22
    Clive Barker
    “You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.”
    Clive Barker

  • #23
    Clive Barker
    “One man's pornography is another man's theology.”
    Clive Barker

  • #24
    Clive Barker
    “Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred. ”
    Clive Barker

  • #25
    Clive Barker
    “A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.”
    Clive Barker, Imajica

  • #26
    Clive Barker
    “We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.”
    Clive Barker, Galilee

  • #27
    Clive Barker
    “Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.”
    Clive Barker

  • #28
    Anne Rice
    “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
    Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

  • #29
    Anne Rice
    “You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
    Anne Rice

  • #30
    Anne Rice
    “Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
    Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire



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