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While in the grip of this story, the reader sweats and grows dizzy, and knows with the greatest immediacy the terror of lust urged on by the approach of death.
“People have a right, I thought, to be as damned eccentric as they please.”
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
“Vinia,” whispered Jim, after a while. “May I now?” His face was very large, near her, larger than any face she had ever seen. “Yes,” she said. He kissed her. The rain poured hard on the tree for a full minute while everything was cold outside and everything was tree-warmth and hidden away inside.”
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
“I hate being clever, thought the captain, when you don’t really feel clever and don’t want to be clever.”
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
“Giovanni Botero, in his 1589 book La Ragion di Stato, was the first to openly argue that, for the safety of the State, men may legitimately perform actions that would be considered crimes were they committed with other purposes or by people not empowered by such a noble institution.”
― The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production
― The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production
“Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allan Poe. Dracula, by Bram Stoker. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving. Rappaccini’s Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce. Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. The Willows, by Algernon Blackwood. The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum. The Weird Shadow Over Innsmoutb, by H. P. Lovecraft.”
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
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