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I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.

Authors Become Competitor Concerning
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My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

Absolutely Am Bored Come
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

Accomplishment Concluded Discrimination Elegant
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

Decrease Happiness Human Human Happiness
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

Associated Darkness Fancy Horror
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.

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Anything Biggest Could Promised
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I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

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Any Being Being Real Dollar
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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.

Dramatic Element Great Great Part
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

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Able Being Blessed Career
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Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.

Any Being Bound Change
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In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.

Achieve Always Atmosphere Belongs
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.

Accustomed Air Any Awe
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Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

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Any Be Prepared Beast Crazy
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

Be Original Being Believe Common
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

Fanatics Few Marked Minds
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

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About American Life Make
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

Able Accomplish Away Christianity
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.

Any Anything Better Cannot
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'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.

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Beautiful Dramatic Good Heavy
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

Experience Genuine Imagination Often
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

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

Heroic Interruptions Judicious Just
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Aim Endless Hence Imaginary
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Beautiful Children Extent Fellow
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.

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Admire Ahead Entire Favorites
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

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Africa Been Going Has Been
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Board Easy God Gods
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Crazier Crazy Device Ignorant
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.

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Age Common Sense Wisdom
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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

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Anymore Credit Even Expectations
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Art Cage Circus Democracy
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Casting Certain Characters Doubts
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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

After Depart Ever Eye
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

About Basic Bore Endless
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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

About Afterwards Average Before
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
Fool He Know Man
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Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

Always Awards Battle Between
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I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

About Book Breaking Classical
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Begin Black Every Flag
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I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

Because Book Create Different
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In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

Been Book Contract First
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Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Comparison Disease Fatal First
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
Further Here Human Human Knowledge
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Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.
Better Much Rock Roll
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So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

Amendment Amendment Rights Book Comic
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Cause Determined Few Leaders
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I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.

Love People Engaged Society
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There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

African Allowing Comedy Folk
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You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Being Between Bored Daydreaming
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And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Adam Apple Eating Got
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