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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: horror, irony
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
    tags: fear-of-unknown
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: comprehension, dark-age, dissociated, dissociation, human-mind, science
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Never Explain Anything”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “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..”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: letters, moving-on
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “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.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: writing
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Temple
    tags: cthulu, madness
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider
    tags: horror, lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: life
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be.
    Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: god, mankind, organized-religion, religion
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. ”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: call-of-ctulhu, lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “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.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Silver Key
    tags: dreams, life, reality
    147 likes

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    Tom Clancy
    “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
    ― Tom Clancy
    tags: life
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    Tom Clancy
    “The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
    ― Tom Clancy
    tags: read
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    Tom Clancy
    “Beware the fury of a patient man”
    ― Tom Clancy
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    Tom Clancy
    “Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.”
    ― Tom Clancy
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    Tom Clancy
    “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.”
    ― Tom Clancy
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    Tom Clancy
    “Nothing is as real as a dream. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.”
    ― Tom Clancy
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    Tom Clancy
    “Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.”
    ― Tom Clancy, Red Rabbit
    tags: courage, testimony, transparency
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    Tom Clancy
    “I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.”
    ― Tom Clancy
    tags: dishonesty, fiction, politics
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    Tom Clancy
    “Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world. ”
    ― Tom Clancy
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    Tom Clancy
    “Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.”
    ― Tom Clancy
    tags: author, cry, novel, novels, questions, speculative, start, what-if, what-now, write, writing
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  • #25
    Tom Clancy
    “It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.”
    ― Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October
    tags: computers, technology, technology-addiction
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    Tom Clancy
    “It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.”
    ― Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October
    tags: diplomacy, truth
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  • #27
    Tom Clancy
    “When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.”
    ― Tom Clancy
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    Tom Clancy
    “Most things in here don't react well to bullets.”
    ― Tom Clancy
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  • #29
    Tom Clancy
    “Time is something that fills the empty spaces of life”
    ― Tom Clancy
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  • #30
    Tom Clancy
    “Surviving is much more painful than death.”
    ― Tom Clancy, Command Authority
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