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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
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    Dennis Lehane
    “In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.”
    ― Dennis Lehane
    tags: noir
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    Raymond Chandler
    “It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: cold, hypothermia, winter
    146 likes

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    Pablo Neruda
    “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: hope, inevitability, spring
    3819 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: theatre
    139 likes

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    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
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    T.S. Eliot
    “April is the cruelest month, breeding
    lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
    memory and desire, stirring
    dull roots with spring rain.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
    tags: april, cruelty, poetry, seasons, weather
    1484 likes

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    Nikola Tesla
    “You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
    tags: dystopian, future, horror, science, technology
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    “The nightmare had come home, spreading its sour wings across his heart, razor teeth and talons tearing into his soul.”
    ― Christopher Hyde, Jericho Falls
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    Oscar Wilde
    “for three hundred years I have not slept, and I am so tired.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
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