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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 ~

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Edgar Allan Poe, Literary Lines, The Masque of the Red Death

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion, even by the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

~ Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death ~

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Farenheit 451, Literary Lines, Ray Bradbury

But you can’t make people listen. They have to come around in their own time, wondering what happened, and why the world blew up around them. It can’t last.

~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 ~

Literary Lines ~ National Poetry Month

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”And the People Stayed Home”, Kitty O’Meara, Literary Lines

Literary Lines ~ Women’s History Month

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”Shirley”, Charlotte Brontë, Literary Lines, Women's History Month

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.

~ Charlotte Brontë, Shirley ~

Literary Lines ~ Women’s History Month

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”Persuasion”, Jane Austen, Literary Lines, Women's History Month

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.