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Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.
H. P. Lovecraft
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H. P. Lovecraft
Age: 46 †
Born: 1890
Born: August 20
Died: 1937
Died: March 15
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I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.
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It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.
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It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.
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Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.
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No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.
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There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.
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Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.
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