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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe
Age: 40 †
Born: 1809
Born: January 19
Died: 1849
Died: October 7
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The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
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Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!
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In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.
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The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel
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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.
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And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...
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