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It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. Gustave Flaubert

Me Memories Back Possess Seems Date Always Existed

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none. Gustave Flaubert

Love Good Sense Above Good Sense Perhaps Because None

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. Gustave Flaubert

Success Must Goal Success Is Consequence

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience. H. P. Lovecraft

Experience Imagination Potent Genuine Very Uneducated Often Place Thing

The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe. H. P. Lovecraft

Time Great Mind Universe Dramatic Great Part Part Tales Most Terrible Terrible Thing Up Reason Many Element Why Thing Profoundly Plays

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. H. P. Lovecraft

Strange Haunt Horror After Places Far Searchers

An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes. H. P. Lovecraft

Bible Simple King Rich Analytical Saxon Though Composition Vocabulary Invaluable General Poetic Habit Excellent Writers Study Quaint Equal Forceful Cultivate Model James Rhythm Themes Production Hard English Even Imaginative

For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students. H. P. Lovecraft

Patience Writing Young Apprenticeship Correct Possible Reliable Must Hasty Mental More Throughout Students He Advanced Period Cultivation His Textbooks Privilege Author Dictionaries Accuracy Essential As Far As Which Elbow Far Manner Keep

The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader. H. P. Lovecraft

Will Stronger Beginning Weaker Must Strongest Rather Contains Since Reader Leave Culmination Impression End Than Story Which

It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. H. P. Lovecraft

Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression. H. P. Lovecraft

Day Word Become Research Add Our Independent More More And More Never Over Without Ready Passed Graceful May Unfamiliar Little Realm Should Each Each Day Expression Conscientious

All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large. H. P. Lovecraft

Emotions Validity Significance Laws Tales Human Common Premise Fundamental Based

The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed. H. P. Lovecraft

Great Man Culture Will Nation Honour High Point Primitive Beyond Imposed May Conventions Acknowledge Cannot Certain Certain Point Desire

All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept. H. P. Lovecraft

Good Will Reading Guide Must Cases More Never Attempts Learner Polish Judicious Cease Effective Begin Precept Than Authors Any Hold Literary Gaining Usage Many Found Amount Phase

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. Hamlin Garland

The term 'pashmina' is often used interchangeably with 'cashmere,' but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat - one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well. Hanya Yanagihara

Reality Type Lofty Nepal India Woven Fine Indigenous Term Well Goat Very Northern Often Used Pakistan Specific

Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them. Hanya Yanagihara

Loneliness You Hate People Sense Conviction Think Earth Out Born No-One Almost Understands Oppressive Them Who

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres. Hector Hugh Munro

Goodness means the highest degree of popularity. Heinrich Mann

Degree Goodness Highest Highest Degree Means Popularity

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will. Helen Garner

Writing Ride Result Desperate Will Every Thousand Dream Must Signing Martini Drink Neurotic Writers Suppose Know Around Idiots Deals Intending Tiny Experts While Decisions Page Who Cool Fully Bars Acts Actual Publishers

It is not a woman I want - it is all women. Henri Barbusse

Woman Women All Women Want

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. Henry Fielding

Heart Excellency Generally Accompanied Truly Taste Elegant

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. Henry Fielding

Happiness Others Thousand Scarcely Person Tasting Capable

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. Henry Fielding

Adversity Man Trial He Principle Knows Without Whether Hardly Honest

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