Anna Camner

The longer Z lived there, the more she believed that the house was bigger in the dark, that it had more rooms at night, and that there were other people living in the house she could not see. FLOWERS OF ROMAMCE

When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Anna Camner

But the film is a sadd’ning bore ‚Cause I wrote it ten times or more.

„In your extended absence, you permit me use of earth“ Louise Gluck

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“Mother’s Deciphered Part Of It. It Doesn’t Look Like An S.O.S... It Looks Like A Warning.” Ripley, Alien

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“Live or die. But don’t poison everything.” Anne Sexton

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We have art in order not to die of the truth. Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.” Anne Sexton

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anais Nin

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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

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Felix Labisse

“Silence had entered me. It was like the night, and my memories-they were like stars. in that they were fixed, though of course. if one could see as do the astronomers. one would see they are unending fires, like the fires of hell”. Louise Gluck - Faithful and Virtuous Night

People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre. Heraclitus

Felix Labisse

“Perhaps the moon is a frozen tear, I do not know.” Anne Sexton

Felix Labisse

Don’t Look Up: Writing Cosmic Horror - come join the madness - 15/11/25 - 11:00

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. Friedrich Nietzsche

Felix Labisse

We are our choices. Jean-Paul Sartre

Felix Labisse

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed. Stanisław Lem, Solaris

I've just read and thoroughly enjoyed the titles below, courtesy of the excellent @salopress.bsky.social @ashleystokes.bsky.social and @timjmajor.bsky.social, fine writers both, are on great form here.

Felix Labisse

God's blood, here's my epochal reading from DIRTY BOY at World Fantasycon on Friday. ‘You are now reading DIRTY BOY, the manuscript you just found stashed inside a chest freezer in the burnt-out sex dungeon.’ ashleystokes.net/reading-dirt...

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JONĖ REED

JONĖ REED

Getting Dirty at World Fantasycon

World Fantasycon, 13:00, Gloucester Room. Reading from DIRTY BOY. It’ll be dirty, I promise.

JONĖ REED

‚It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.‘ Graham Greene, Brighton Rock

His eyes scrutinised her in the rearview mirror. Then across the windscreen, more dead black eyes emerged, eye-slits pressed into a great white spider’s dome-scalp, the windows, one of which used to be her bedroom’s. Mirzam House reared up. Flowers of Romance

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What was most evil in him needed her: it couldn’t get along without goodness. Graham Greene, Brighton Rock

...trying to extricate from the long day the grain of pleasure Graham Greene, Brighton Rock

Heaven was a word: hell was something he could trust. Graham Greene, Brighton Rock

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced Graham Greene, Brighton Rock

Arrived in Brighton for World Fantasycon. ‚He laughed again: the horror of the world lay like infection in his throat.‘ Graham Greene, Brighton Rock