“ The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. ”
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“ Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or ‘outsideness’ without laying stress on the emotion of fear. ”
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“ To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest. ”
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“ But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. ”
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“ Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. ”
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“ At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night. ”
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“ I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams. ”
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“ Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy. ”
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“ All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other. ”
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“ No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. ”
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“ Religion is still useful among the herd that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is ineradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else... ”
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“ We all know that any emotional bias irrespective of truth or falsity can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value.... If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. With such an honest and inflexible openness to evidence, they could not fail to receive any real truth which might be manifesting itself around them. The fact that religionists do not follow this honourable course, but cheat at their game by invoking juvenile quasihypnosis, is enough to destroy their pretensions in my eyes even if their absurdity were not manifest in every other direction. ”
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“ In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes, But all the sadder tums, the more he knows! ”
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“ I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you knowor perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same. ”
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“ In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes, But all the sadder tums, the more he knows! ”
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“ That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. ”
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“ Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy. ”
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“ No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity. Through the Gates of the Silver Key ”
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“ If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in oil and set first to his clothing one night. ”
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“ I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel. ”
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“ I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost. ”
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“ I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost. ”
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“ There are my 'Poe' pieces and my 'Dunsany pieces' —but alas— where are any Lovecraft pieces? ”
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“ At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night. ”
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“ A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law. ”
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“ The one test of the really weird (story) is simply thiswhether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe's utmost rim. ”
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“ Any magazinecover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear. ”
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“ Religion is still useful among the herd that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is ineradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else... ”
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