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Edgar Allan Poe
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was--but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasureable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me--upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain--upon the bleak walls--upon the vacant eye-like windows--upon a few rank sedges--and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees--with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium--the bitter lapse into everyday life--the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart--an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales

Sara Pascoe
“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

George Orwell
“His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.”
George Orwell, Animal Farm

Chad Boudreaux
“Blake shook his head and smiled as the attorney general of the United States closed the door. As usual, the forecast called for a wonderful day at the United States Department of Justice. Unfortunately, the daily forecast would soon change, as would the life of Blake Hudson.”
Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

Jerome K. Jerome
“Nothing is easier to write than scenery; nothing more difficult and unnecessary to read.”
Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel
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