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"There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street."
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"I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book."

"The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all."
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"If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try."
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"The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my longing for light grew so frantic that I could rest no more, and I lifted entreating hands to the single black ruined tower that reached above the forest into the unknown outer sky. And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall through I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without even beholding day."

"Warped and bigoted with preconceived illusions of justice, freedom, and consistency, they cast off the old lore and the old way with the old beliefs; nor ever stopped to think that the lore and those ways were the sole makers of their present thoughts and judgments, and the sole guides and standards in a meaningless universe without fixed aims or stable points of reference."

"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.."

"Any magazine-cover 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."

"If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians."
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