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H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. He was virtually unknown and published only in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, but he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre.

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As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

Agony, Based, Existence, Scales, Sensible, Values

It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of Hastur" although it was really from Machen & Dunsany & others, rather than through the Bierce - Chambers line, that I picked up my gradually developing hash of theogony or daimonogony. Come to think of it, I guess I sling this stuff more as Chambers does than as Machen & Dunsany do though I had written a good deal of it before I ever suspected that Chambers ever wrote a weird story!

Cthulhuism, Doe, Ideas, Thinking, Though, Weird

Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one is.

Artist, Faking, Phase, Phases, Pretending, Sense

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

Reality, Shadow, Substance

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

Dare, Places, Soul, Street, Streets, Things

I am only about half alive a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.

Bored, Consumed, Life, Philosophy, Suicidal, System

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.

Book, Books, Floor, Letting Go, Library, Sleep

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

Die, Eternal, Lie, Lying, May, Strange

More wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean. Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. All my days I have watched it and listened to it, and I know it well. At first it told to me only the plain little tales of calm beaches and near ports, but with the years it grew more friendly and spoke of other things; of things more strange and more distant in space and time.

Beach, Book, Grew, Ocean, Secret, Years

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.

Care, Heaven, Particularly, Safe, Top

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.

Good Life, Hate, Laws, Local, Real, Temporary

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

Explain, Primitive, Shortcut, Shortcuts, Singular, Thinker

The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.

Achievement, Greatest, Human, Humans, Profit

That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.

Anatomy, Artist, Memories, Physiology, Real, Sort

I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.

Flower, Flowers, Hold, Poison, Spring, Summer

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

Age, Divisions, Nature, Prejudice, Race

The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse.

Memories, Old Things, Rejoicing, Sea, Shadow, Token

The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect successions of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

Long, Occasional, Often Is, Perfect, Poem, Rhymes

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

Absent, Greatest, Horror, Irony, Seldom

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Comic, Joke, Mankind, World

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