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As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.

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Laird Barron

Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.

Enlightenment, Punishment, Reward, Rewards, See

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The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.

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THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.

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but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean. In my mind, here was the best kind of art-the kind hoarded by rich and jealous collectors in their locked galleries; hidden from the eyes of the heathen masses, waiting to be shared with the ripe few

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Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.

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Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.

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the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up. . . . moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt. . . . even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life.

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