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There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.


H. P. Lovecraft

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JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
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A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
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FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
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GARY F EVANS... If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think...
GARY F EVANS... Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
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BRET EASTON ELLIS I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of exp...
FLORA LEWIS History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
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SARAH J. MAAS Don’t be so hard on yourself, You’re doing the same thing, trying to reconcile all the moms that...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
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APURVA GAGLANI A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
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LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
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GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
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GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
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HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
JOHN UPDIKE Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
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SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
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MILAN KUNDERA general tension in the region and the feeling that there was a requirement or a need for a new revie...
EDWARD WALKER That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
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HELEN LAWRENSON Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn...
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BETTY GRABLE Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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WASHINGTON IRVING I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the fi...
GILDA RADNER I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
MARY OLIVER The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good quote is far better than the best selling books.
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. Bu...
JOHN PIPER I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because...
EDWARD EVERETT HALE Endeavor to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gre...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A man who loves a bad name cares less about the future of his great grand children.
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APURVA GAGLANI If given an opportunity to head an establishment,resite this "A good name will last better for my fa...
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MALCOLM COWLEY Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies ne...
PATRICK NESS No matter who you are and what you do, you can prove to yourself that you can be anybody you want to...
BLABLABLA Diamond & platinum are the obstacles that always stand in the way of a good name.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To worry about the past will bring devastation in the future.
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GARY F EVANS... Let us endeavor to have a good name,for in so doing we are sowing good seeds,that will one day be ha...
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MARY BETH WHITEHEAD During times of sour or bad relationship a good person will always exhibit a pleasant character.
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PETER STROPLE A life without problems is a life less likely to be.
VANCE B.. CHAN Beautiful things happen in your life,if you distance yourself from all the negative things.
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H. P. LOVECRAFT The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which...
H. P. LOVECRAFT All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum tot...
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H.P. LOVECRAFT From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
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H.P. LOVECRAFT Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; th...
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H.P. LOVECRAFT He used to make shuddering conjectures about the possible actions of a headless physician with the p...
H.P. LOVECRAFT we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.
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H.P. LOVECRAFT I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago. The general tension was horrible. T...
H.P. LOVECRAFT I s’pose you know—though I can see you’re a Westerner by your talk—what a lot our New Englan...
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H.P. LOVECRAFT A sickened, sensitive shadow writhing in hands that are not hands, and whirled blindly past ghastly ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT A mountain walked or stumbled.
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H.P. LOVECRAFT Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulh...
H.P. LOVECRAFT “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is...
H.P. LOVECRAFT The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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H.P. LOVECRAFT I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnes...
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H.P. LOVECRAFT It wearied Carter to see how solemnly people tried to make earthly reality out of old myths which ev...
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H.P. LOVECRAFT Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.
H.P. LOVECRAFT To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchan...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pra...
H.P. LOVECRAFT It is no longer necessary to preach sonorously of the sinful and deleterious effect of liquor on the...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Though at times interested in reforms, notably prohibition (I have never tasted alcoholic liquor), I...
H.P. LOVECRAFT The social prestige of wine at table and at the club must be destroyed through lofty example and pol...
H.P. LOVECRAFT The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i...
H.P. LOVECRAFT I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and flowers ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make t...
H.P. LOVECRAFT At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, th...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate...
H.P. LOVECRAFT No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
H.P. LOVECRAFT Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.
H.P. LOVECRAFT I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thou...
H.P. LOVECRAFT That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
H.P. LOVECRAFT They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT There is in certain ancient things a trace
Of some dim essence --
More than form or weight...
H.P. LOVECRAFT He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers h...
H.P. LOVECRAFT We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages.
H.P. LOVECRAFT Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changele...
H.P. LOVECRAFT What do we know,” he had said, “of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving i...
H.P. LOVECRAFT The cloudless day is richer at its close;
A golden glory settles on the lea;
Soft, stealin...
H.P. LOVECRAFT To say that we actually believed in vampires or werewolves would be a carelessly inclusive statement...
H.P. LOVECRAFT I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.
H.P. LOVECRAFT After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the...
H P (HENRY PEACH) ROBINSON Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO