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You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.

Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story c...

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Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are t...

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The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

...were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I th...

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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.