H. P. Lovecraft
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"Howard Phillips Lovecraft"—known as "H.P. Lovecraft"—was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre.

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Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

...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.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.