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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"

"Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this."

"The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties."

"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."
Explore more quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

"The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable."

"The cat . . . is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe."

"I know always that I am an outsider, a stranger in this century and among those who are still men."

"Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit."

"It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all."

"Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity."

"By necessity practical and by philosophy stern, these folk were not beautiful in their sins."

"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."

"Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent."
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