Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway

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Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark. Stefan Zweig

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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.” ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. Primo Levi

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Animals are fine, but their acceptability is limited. A small child is even better, but not nearly as effective as the right kind of adult. Lord Summerisle, The Wicker Man

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Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed. H.P. Lovecraft, Hypnos

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God created war so that Americans would learn geography. Mark Twain

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The greatest assassin of life is haste. Theodore Roethke

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THE EYELASH TAROT EXPERIMENT now has a cover. Check out my blog to have a gander. Really excited about this. It's just a suggestion, but you ought to pre-order. ashleystokes.net/new-writing-...

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. Albert Camus

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“Not bad for a human.” Bishop - ‘Aliens’

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Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always Dante

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For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. William Butler Yeats

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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly. Alan Lightman

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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back. James Baldwin

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“Rest and be thankful.” ― William Wordsworth

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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Thrilled to announce that I have a new business, The Ghosting Company, offering writing services to anyone with a message or story they need to tell. If you have an idea, we have a book. theghostingcompany.com

And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun. William Butler Yeats

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A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable. Bertrand Russell, The Will to Doubt

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Listen to the fool’s reproach! It is a kingly title! William Blake, Proverbs of Hell

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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. Pablo Neruda

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“And all the ink, all that remained of his father, was washed from my hands.” ― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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“Yes. Yes. I accept you, demon. I will not cover your mouth.” — Anne Sexton, “Demon”

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Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises... H.P. Lovecraft