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| bd48335 | That Crawford Tilinghast should ever have studied science and philosophy was a mistake. These things should be left to the frigid and impersonal investigator for they offer two equally tragic alternatives to the man of feeling and action; despair, if he fail in his quest, and terrors unutterable and unimaginable if he succeed. | H. P. Lovecraft | ||
| f48d22b | for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realize. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 773ee7e | an' when they git ready... I say, when they git... ever hear tell of a shoggoth? 'Hey, d'ye hear me? I tell ye I know what them things be - I seen 'em one mght when... eh-ahhh-ah! e'yahhh... | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 422db31 | Non e morto cio che puo vivere in eterno, E in strani eoni anche la morte puo morire. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 132b562 | Without warning, I heard the heavy door behind me creak slowly open upon its rusted hinges. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 78193b1 | I choose weird stories because they suit my inclination best--one of my strongest and most persistent wishes being to achieve, momentarily, the illusion of some strange suspension or violation of the galling limitations of time, space, and natural law which for ever imprison us and frustrate our curiosity about the infinite cosmic spaces beyond the radius of our sight and analysis. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 0c48bdb | Where does madness leave off and reality begin? | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 2c556e6 | In youth he had felt the hidden beauty and ecstasy of things, and had been a poet; but poverty and sorrow and exile had turned his gaze in darker directions, and he had thrilled at the imputations of evil in the world around. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 1f89e69 | Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 42e236b | I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 0264512 | After September 11th, I never much liked the trend of everyone and his brother wearing the hats and jackets of the NYPD and FDNY. Only the people who do the job should get to wear the hat. Would you wear someone else's Medal of Honor? Yes, it's a tribute, and sincere tribute is always appropriate for these brave people. But wearing their symbols is also rubbing off a piece of heroism that isn't yours. | america heroes heroism patriotism war-on-terror | Bill Maher | |
| fe47132 | New Rule: From now on, duct tape must be called what it really is--murder tape. A search of the suspected Craigslist Killer's home yielded a firearm, restraints, and duct tape, or, as we call that here in Hollywood, Phil Spector's earthquake kit. | Bill Maher | ||
| 4e01960 | Gradually and mistily it became apparent that the Most Ancient One was holding something--some object clutched in the outflung folds of his robe as if for the sight, or what answered for sight, of the cloaked Companions. It was a large sphere or apparent sphere of some obscurely iridescent metal, and as the Guide put it forward a low, pervasive half-impression of sound began to rise and fall in intervals which seemed to be rhythmic even tho.. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| a868b8c | Common sense" in reflecting on these subjects, I assured my friend with some warmth, is merely a stupid absence of imagination and mental flexibility." -- | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 8794d9f | I have often wondered if the majority of mankind ever pause to reflect upon the occasionally titanic significance of dreams, and of the obscure world to which they belong. Whilst the greater number of our nocturnal visions are perhaps no more than faint and fantastic reflections of our waking experiences--Freud to the contrary with his puerile symbolism--there are still a certain remainder whose immundane and ethereal character permit of no.. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| ff32ec8 | Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and of the past was his undoing. He stumbled on things no mortal ought ever to know, and reached back through the years as no one ever should reach; and something came out of those years to engulf him. | madness mystery obsession past study undoing | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 5bb0333 | Though at times interested in reforms, notably prohibition (I have never tasted alcoholic liquor), I was inclined to be bored by ethical casuistry; since I believed conduct to be a matter of taste and breeding, with virtue, delicacy, and truthfulness as symbols of gentility. Of my word and honour I was inordinately proud, and would permit no reflections to be cast upon them. I thought ethics too obvious and commonplace to be scientifically .. | liquor pagan prohibition sobriety | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| b7f553a | Even yet I do not know why the ocean holds such a fascination for me. But then, perhaps none of us can solve those things--they exist in defiance of all explanation. There are men, and wise men, who do not like the sea and its lapping surf on yellow shores; and they think us strange who love the mystery of the ancient and unending deep. Yet for me there is a haunting and inscrutable glamour in all the ocean's moods. It is in the melancholy .. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 5533e2d | When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water that torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victims body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods. Once when the wind was soft and scented I heard the south calling, and sailed e.. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| fa092bc | The more he withdrew from the world about him, the more wonderful became his dreams; and it would have been quite futile to try to describe them on paper. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| f5087c3 | A sickened, sensitive shadow writhing in hands that are not hands, and whirled blindly past ghastly midnights of rotting creation, corpses of dead worlds with sores that were cities, charnel winds that brush the pallid stars and make them flicker low. Beyond the worlds vague ghosts of monstrous things; half-seen columns of unsanctified temples that rest on nameless rocks beneath space and reach up to dizzy vacua above the spheres of light a.. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 024f860 | And even in the open air the stench of whiskey was appalling. To this fiendish poison, I am certain, the greater part of the squalor I saw is due. Many of these vermin were obviously not foreigners--I counted at least five American countenances in which a certain vanished decency half showed through the red whiskey bloating. Then I reflected upon the power of wine, and marveled how self-respecting persons can imbibe such stuff, or permit it.. | ale beer booze drinking drunk drunkeness lovecraft poison sobriety straight-edge teetotal teetotaler | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| dc576fa | Shoot Dr. Allen on sight and dissolve his body in acid. Don't burn it. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| dcb0c24 | When age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men; when grey cities reared to smoky skies tall towers grim and ugly, in whose shadow none might dream of the sun or of spring's flowering meads; when learning stripped earth of her mantle of beauty, and poets sang no more save of twisted phantoms seen with bleared and inward-looking eyes; when these things had come to pass, and childish hopes had gone away forever, there wa.. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 4fdf1e1 | He was told how childish and limited is the notion of a tri-dimensional world, and what an infinity of directions there are besides the known directions of up-down, forward-backward, right-left. He was shown the smallness and tinsel emptiness of the little Earth gods, with their petty, human interests and connetions--their hatreds, rages, loves, and vanities; their craving for praise and sacrifice, and their demands for faith contrary to re.. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| ea24053 | We should stop worrying so much about the of gasoline and start considering its . You really want to be patriotic? Don't change your car by putting a flag on it, change the car. | gas-prices patriotism politics war-on-terror | Bill Maher | |
| bd7e44d | Both mother and daughter attempted to free themselves from the stranglehold of polite society, and both struggled to balance their need for love and companionship with their need for independence. They braved the criticism of their peers to write works that took on the most volatile issues of the day. Brave, passionate, and visionary, they broke almost every rule there was to break. Both had children out of wedlock. Both fought against the .. | Charlotte Gordon | ||
| 8eef4ef | If I have an ambition, it's to leave the world a little better than I found it. | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| a76986d | I don't usually look back. When I make foolish decisions, I file the consequences under lessons learned and tell myself not to be stupid in the same way again. | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| 9e93815 | Softly he continued, "You need to ask God for forgiveness. That's His job, isn't it? To forgive imperfect humankind. You are quick to forgive others and offer them kindness. Do the same for yourself." | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| 1419ea3 | Life is an impossible twist of choice and circumstance. One rarely exists without the other. | Lisa Unger | ||
| f82b4a5 | But in the end, it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them. That's where you have control over your life. | Lisa Unger | ||
| f616089 | For what other reason might we cling to objects, old photographs, tarnished jewelry, yellowed letters? They're charms, little pieces of magic. When we touch them, we regain for a second what time has stolen or worn away. | Lisa Unger | ||
| e189341 | What is the difference between justice and revenge?" he asked. ... "Revenge seeks chaos," he said. "Justice seeks balance. That's the difference." | Lisa Unger | ||
| a38e0ce | I started thinking about how to draw her, how I'd capture all the things I saw in just those few moments that our lives intersected. Faces are so hard because they are more than lines and shadows. They are about light, but a light that comes from inside and shines out. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 80f85de | Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can break your heart. | Lisa Unger | ||
| cd429aa | IF YOU REALLY let life take you, if you release control and stop clinging to sameness, you can't imagine the places you'll end up. But most people don't do that. Most people get this death grip on what they know, and the only thing that loosens their grasp is some kind of tragedy. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 54ca226 | There was something eternal about loss, something endless. You could always lose the things you had, but you couldn't always get back the things you lost. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 5cee798 | grief is not linear. It's not a slow progression forward toward healing, it's a zigzag, a terrible back-and-forth from devastated to okay until finally there are more okay patches and fewer devastated ones. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 5b014d7 | I should have been sending up flares, instead I was offering smiles. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 79bf262 | What is an obsession? It is a form of programming that has gotten completely out of hand. Religious fanatics are a prime example, as are those people who become enveloped in a political concept. Most of man's progress has come about as a result of obsessions. The Wright brothers were not just tinkerers with an idea; their idea swallowed them up. Most leaders are obsessed with power or possessed by egos so large their only concern is their p.. | John A. Keel | ||
| 08842bc | First of all understand that I get it. That there are millions and millions of women who are steely eyed realists. And millions and millions of men who are anything but. However. For lack of a better term I would say that the feminine values are the values of america : Sensitivity is more important than Truth. Feelings are more important than Facts. Commitment is more important than Individuality. Children are more important than People. Sa.. | culture femininity feminism marriage marriage-humor married-men masculinity mens-rights the-red-pill truth truth-telling | Bill Maher | |
| a290de2 | Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more of it! Strange when you consider their answer to dependence is to cut off the supply. | analogy dependence drugs gas-prices oil politics | Bill Maher | |
| b0fd7fe | America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can prevent. | humor | Bill Maher |