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“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.”
― Drew Barrymore

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― D.C. Fontana

“For us, the falsity of a judgment is still no objection to that judgment — that’s where our new way of speaking sounds perhaps most strange. The question is the extent to which it makes demands on life, sustains life, maintains the species, perhaps even creates species. And as a matter of principle we are ready to assert that the falsest judgments (to which a priori synthetic judgments belong) are the most indispensable to us, that without our allowing logical fictions to count, without a way of measuring reality against the purely invented world of the unconditional and self-identical, without a constant falsification of the world through numbers, human beings could not live — that if we managed to give up false judgments, it would amount to a renunciation of life, a denial of life.

To concede the fictional nature of the conditions of life means, of course, taking a dangerous stand against the customary feelings about value. A philosophy which dares to do that is for this reason alone already standing beyond good and evil.”
― Nietzsche, Além do Bem e do Mal

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Your husband’s just going to have to man up and take it like an elf.”
― Adam Millard, The Human Santapede

“the learned holy men knew more of sacred things than this wild woman of the camps who wore her hair at shoulder length and fared forth dight in hose and doublet like a man”
― Seabury Quinn, Roads: A Legend of Santa Claus

“Moreover, he was deeply versed in demonology, and could smell wizardry or witchcraft featly as the beagle scents the cony, so when he spake he spake with great authority, and thus he spake to the Burggraf:”
― Seabury Quinn, Roads: A Legend of Santa Claus

“foxwomen,”
― A. Merritt, Women of the Wood

“Unfortunately, her degrees in Philosophy, History, Russian, Anthropology, Psychology, and Humanities were useless in the job market,”
― Carlton Mellick III, The Haunted Vagina

“She’s the best person in the world to be around when she’s happy.”
― Carlton Mellick III, The Haunted Vagina

“Lone Crow climbed Telegraph Hill, winding his way through clusters of tents and ramshackle wooden shelters of the Chileno encampment that clung to the slopes like barnacles on a ship’s hull.”
― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow

“The drum of hoofbeats rang from the trail winding up the side of Telegraph Hill, and then the sound of footsteps preceding them came to Crow’s ears.”
― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow

“Standing on the roof of a shanty, built just below Buena’s tent was a Chinese man dressed in a pien-fu, a long tunic that fell to the knee of his underlying trousers.”
― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow

“A terrified mauk went shrieking to her knees and the warrior’s narrow eyes appraised her with glittering intensity”
― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow

“Still, the badger-warrior’s momentum kept him running forward and Crow feared that upraised sword might be able to cleave either he or Ferguson in twain.”
― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow

“Lone Crow knew better than to draw upon one Tong hatchetman, let alone three. Yet there he was, standing in the streets of Little China, hand resting on his eagle-butted Colt revolver, facing down three fighting men of the Hop Sing Tong.”
― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow

“This hound, it was kept with me in the hold of the Far Traveler. It is an ancient evil thing drawn from the voids of space and bound to earth by my father. It is a thing that is pure evil and it cannot be slain by earthly weapons.”
― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow

“strakes”
― Joel Jenkins, The Coming of Crow

“J.C. slammed into the center of the volcano, plunging deep beneath the lava, and was immediately incinerated. This was an unforeseen problem.”
― Michael Allen Rose, Jurassichrist

“The mudbank drowsed in the sunshine.”
― Tone Wasbak Melbye, Wales and the art of fine dying

“I gazed in through shop windows at clothes, electronic thingummies, and various bottles. People live here, I thought. They live and change and the world is a whole.”
― Tone Wasbak Melbye, Wales and the art of fine dying

“I wished I could put all of these things in a drawer and close it, pick them out again when I felt ready to examine them, like treasures collected from a walk on the beach.”
― Tone Wasbak Melbye, Wales and the art of fine dying

“I learned of the fungoid, inhuman beings that dwell on far cold Yuggoth, of the cyclopean shapes that attend unsleeping Cthulhu in his submarine city, of the strange pleasures that the followers of leprous, subterranean Yog-Sothoth may possess, and I learned, too, of the unbelievable manner in which Iod, the Source, is worshiped beyond the outer galaxies.”
― Henry Kuttner, The Book of Iod: Ten Cthulhu Stories

“The Sindara rules benignantly over Bel Yarnak; yet in the old days fear and doom lay like a shroud over the land, and in the Gray Gulf of Yarnak a brooding horror dwelt loathsomely.”
― Henry Kuttner, The Book of Iod: Ten Cthulhu Stories

“No one liked to talk about it, but occasionally a toothless crone would mumble fearfully that the flames could not burn her, for her whole body had taken on the peculiar anesthesia of her witch-mark.”
― Henry Kuttner, The Book of Iod: Ten Cthulhu Stories

“The rat was acting abnormally, he felt, and the unwinking gaze of its cold shoe-button eyes was somehow disturbing.”
― Henry Kuttner, The Book of Iod: Ten Cthulhu Stories

“The people of Bel Yarnak no longer move light-heartedly about their houses; lifeless images throng the streets and palaces. Immovable and silent sits the Sindara on a tarnished throne; dark and grim looms the city under the hurtling moons. It is Dis; it is the damned city, and sad voices in the silent metropolis mourn for lost glory.”
― Henry Kuttner, The Book of Iod: Ten Cthulhu Stories

“Yet, if Smith were right (and I did not doubt him), the green eyes of Dr. Fu-Manchu had looked upon the scene; and I found myself marveling that its beauty had not wilted up. Even now the dread Chinaman must be near to us.”
― Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu