P Lovecraft
P Lovecraft
good-life real hate
Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.
dream poet tales
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
aptitude
Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.
insanity brain forget
Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity
achievement profit humans
The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.
heaven care safe
Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
my-best-friend bullets six
It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.
ocean blue white
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
christian animal saint
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...
men laughing universe
It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.
letting-go book sleep
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
opposites entrepreneur horror
There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.
Never Explain Anything
powerful writing style
A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook.