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Laura’s Quotes

“The happiest types I've ever known ran puppet shows - turning puppets into people. It works much better than turning people into puppets.”
― J.B. Priestley

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“We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?”
― Arthur Machen, The White People and Other Stories

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“Nothing is more comforting than the weaknesses of persons obviously superior to oneself.”
― Isaiah Berlin

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“The tortured are a class apart. You can imagine – just – where they’ve been, but never what they’ve brought back.”
― John le Carré, A Legacy of Spies

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“Love I never associated with the senses, it was not even passion that I wanted; it was a conscious, subtle, elaborate sensuality, which I knew not how to procure.”
― Arthur Symons, Spiritual Adventures

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Supernatural Fiction Readers — 2147 members — last activity May 11, 2026 09:34AM
This is a group for people who enjoy all types of supernatural fiction (scary or not), set in our own world: ghost stories, vampires, witches and sorc ...more

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This ia a group for discussing the works of Robert Aickman, a master crasftsman of weird, strange tales. If you are interested in discussing and disse ...more

Folk Horror Revival — 679 members — last activity Feb 24, 2026 04:04PM
A gathering place to share and discuss Folk Horror in fiction and non-fiction and also the related fields of psychogeography, hauntology, folklore, cu ...more

The book you like most — 49941 members — last activity 9 hours, 18 min ago
This group (ranked in the TOP 100 most popular groups on Goodreads) is dedicated to the "Vision and Story" project. Additionally, the group THE BOOK ...more

FREE BOOKS for Book lovers: ARC & Polished Manuscript Readers for Authors — 7239 members — last activity 39 minutes ago
This group is designed to help Authors in the publishing process & to provide book lovers with FREE books. Readers can get their hands on polished no ...more

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