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“The Prophets”, Black History Month, Literary Lines, Robert Jones Jr.

There are no lines. For everything is a circle, turning back on itself endlessly. This is not to make you dizzy, but to give you the chance to get it right the next time.

~ Robert Jones, Jr., The Prophets (2021) ~

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Edith Lovejoy Pierce, Literary Lines, New Year’s Day

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.

~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce ~

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Chris Van Allsburg, Literary Lines, The Polar Express

Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see.

~ Chris Van Allsburg, The Polar Express ~

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“Christmas Gift Suggestions”, Literary Lines, Oren Arnold

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David Wong, Literary Lines, This Book Is Full of Spiders

What humans want most of all is to be right. Even if we’re being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner, ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others, and made to look foolish.

~ David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders ~ 

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Danse Macabre, Literary Lines, Stephen King

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness to another, remembering little of the one, and knowing nothing of the other.

~ Stephen King, Danse Macabre ~

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”The Thing on the Doorstep”, H.P. Lovecraft, Literary Lines

There are horrors beyond life’s edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man’s evil prying calls them just within our range.

~ H.P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep ~

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Emily Dickinson, Literary Lines

One need not be a chamber to be haunted. One need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place.

~ Emily Dickinson ~

Literary Lines ~ Autumnal Equinox

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Autumnal Equinox, ”The Autumn”, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Literary Lines

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Literary Lines, Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

~ Voltaire, Questions Sur Les Miracles ~