Leslie S. Klinger > Quotes

“I had chosen the dead rather than the living, the thing thought rather than the thing thinking!”
― Leslie S. Klinger, In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914

“but you are very well aware that I belong to that remarkable class of authors who, when they are bearing anything about in their minds in the manner I have just described, feel as if everybody who comes near them, and also the whole world to boot, were asking, “Oh! what is it? Oh! do tell us, my good sir?”
― Leslie S. Klinger, In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914

“Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.”
― Leslie S. Klinger, In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914

“You mean to make me beg for it?” “Not at all, my lord. I mean to keep it,”
― Leslie S. Klinger, In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914

“you would only laugh at me, not because my thoughts were stupid, but because I was so foolish as to attempt to tell them to you. If”
― Leslie S. Klinger, In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914

“The Dream of Egypt was Eternity: her odors have the solidity of granite, and endure as long. I”
― Leslie S. Klinger, In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914

“There is a theory that any one who talks enough on any subject must, if only by chance, finally say something not altogether incorrect.”
― Leslie S. Klinger, Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s