Clark Ashton Smith quotes
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“There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the horror- blackened memories which I have carried so long, were never meant to be borne by the human intellect.”
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“Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.”
-- Clark Ashton SmithSource : Clark Ashton Smith (2011). “The Demon of the Flower”, p.5, eStar Books
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“Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.”
-- Clark Ashton SmithSource : Clark Ashton Smith (2011). “The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
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“In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.”
-- Clark Ashton SmithSource : Clark Ashton Smith, “The Unremembered”
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“Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.”
-- Clark Ashton Smith
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Source : Rosemary Altea (2008). “A Matter of Life and Death: Remarkable True Stories of Hope and Healing”, p.203, Penguin
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“Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics
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Source : A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA
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Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.
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