the unattractive will not procreate. Beauty attracts beauty and begets beauty. It is a means of selection. You see, I am offering you a compliment.”
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Two ingredients most valuable in the concocting of a ghost story are the atmosphere and the nicely managed crescendo
…Let us, then, be introduced to the actors in a placid way; let us see them going about their ordinary business, undisturbed by forebodings, pleased with their surroundings; and into this calm environment let the ominous thing put out its head, unobtrusively at first, and then more insistently, until it holds the stage.”
― A Warning to the Curious
…Let us, then, be introduced to the actors in a placid way; let us see them going about their ordinary business, undisturbed by forebodings, pleased with their surroundings; and into this calm environment let the ominous thing put out its head, unobtrusively at first, and then more insistently, until it holds the stage.”
― A Warning to the Curious
“Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.”
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