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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

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It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

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There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

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The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part.

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Never Explain Anything

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I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

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I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.

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A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook.

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I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.

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There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.

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It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination.

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The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.

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There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.

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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

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What I used to respect was not really aristocracy, but a set of personal qualities which aristocracy then developed better than any other system . . . a set of qualities, however, whose merit lay only in a psychology of non-calculative, non-competitive disinterestedness, truthfulness, courage, and generosity fostered by good education, minimum economic stress, and assumed position, AND JUST AS ACHIEVABLE THROUGH SOCIALISM AS THROUGH ARISTOCRACY.

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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

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I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.

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No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.

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Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

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The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

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