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“Every story penned by a writer is in some manner a love affair; its secret intimate details, its moments of joy and completeness, and sometimes its aching sadness and loss, has been painstakingly recorded by the writer, as if for a time capsule, so those feelings and emotions will be remembered for all time, and never forgotten.”
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“Society today is based in its technology on thinking in terms of numbers. In its social organization, on the other hand, it is based on thinking in terms of words. It's in here that the real clash lies, between the literary mind and the mathematical mind.”
― The Black Cloud
― The Black Cloud
“In his entire body of work, there is not a single allusion to two of the realities to which we generally ascribe great importance: sex and money. Truly not one reference. He writes exactly as though these things did not exist. So much so that when a female character does intervene in a story (which occurs altogether twice) one feels an odd twinge of bizarreness, as if he had suddenly decided to describe a Japanese person.”
― H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
― H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
“Aki szeret élni, nem szokott olvasni.”
― H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
― H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
“When you remain in one place too long, and you have no one, not even a town that marks your absence when you’re gone, roots are simply a reminder that you’re not among the chosen, or the lucky.”
― Down Every Road: A Noir Shot Quintet
― Down Every Road: A Noir Shot Quintet
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