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“There are people.
There are stories.
The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth.
Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.”
― Swamp Thing, Vol. 2: Love and Death
There are stories.
The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth.
Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.”
― Swamp Thing, Vol. 2: Love and Death
“In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.”
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“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
― The Call of Cthulhu: With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss
― The Call of Cthulhu: With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss
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