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“I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.”
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M. R. James
Source : M. R. James (2011). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.70, OUP Oxford
#Halloween Quotes
#Sleep Quotes
#Night Quotes
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“Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.”
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M. R. James
Source : M.r. James (2016). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.52, M.r. James
#Elderly Quotes
#Views Quotes
#Sound Quotes
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“If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them will have been attained.”
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M. R. James
Source : M. R. James (2011). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.406, OUP Oxford
#Writing Quotes
#Fire Quotes
#Dying Quotes
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“You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?”
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M. R. James
#War Quotes
#Age Quotes
#Mature Love Quotes
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“A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!”
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M. R. James
Source : M. R. James (1987). “Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories”, p.647, Oxford Paperbacks
#Ghost Stories Quotes
#May Quotes
#Succeed Quotes
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“Do I believe in ghosts?...I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me.”
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M. R. James
Source : M. R. James (1987). “Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories”, p.15, Oxford Paperbacks
#Believe Quotes
#Ghost Quotes
#Accepting Quotes
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“Yes, I definitely prefer the daylight population of the playing fields to that which comes there after dark.”
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M. R. James
#Dark Quotes
#Population Quotes
#Daylight Quotes
