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“biography is to be found in everything we do and say, in our every gesture, in the way we sit, the way we talk and stare, the way we turn our head or pick up an object from the floor. And that is what the painter (or narrator) must try to
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“To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition – irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.”
― American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
― American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
“Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.”
― If You Could See Me Now
― If You Could See Me Now
“From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. ... A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, amazement, shock, terror, anger, anxiety, melancholia, or the momentary frisson of horror.”
― American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
― American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
“I am proud only of those days that pass in
undivided tenderness.”
― A Little Book on the Human Shadow: A Poetic Journey into the Dark Side of the Human Personality, Shadow Work, and the Importance of Confronting Our Hidden Self
undivided tenderness.”
― A Little Book on the Human Shadow: A Poetic Journey into the Dark Side of the Human Personality, Shadow Work, and the Importance of Confronting Our Hidden Self
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