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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

~H. P. Lovecraft

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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

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Adulthood is hell.

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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.

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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

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For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.

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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

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Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 20th, 1890

Died: March 15th, 1937

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