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When I first read Lovecraft around 1971, and even more so when I began to read about his life, I immediately knew that I wanted to write horror stories. I had read Arthur Machen before I read Lovecraft, and I didn’t have that reaction at all. It wa...

Thomas Ligotti

Adam Trask: [Adam gives Cal the bible to read] Start at the fifth verse. Verse 5. Cal Trask: [Cal begins to read... ] "I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord and thou f...

East of Eden

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

The Cost of Living

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

The Collector

Some days, the music is not in tune, but it's always a song worth singing. That's the best description of a good marriage I've ever heard...

The Collector

The sated day is never first The best day is a day of thirst Yes, there is goal and meaning in our path - but it is the way that is the labour's worth.

Complete Poems

The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable. It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint and inner worth.

Classic of Tea: Origins and Rituals

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.

Darkest England

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

Dead to the World

The heart easily commends and condemns itself, depending on our wave like performance. That is why we must base our worth in Jesus alone.

Eve of Awakening

News is something worth knowing that you didn't know already. (by an "earnest young woman" in his journalism class)

Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion

Anything of worth is costly: devotion to Christ, a strong marriage, financial responsibility, a life of integrity, and of course, fearlessly feminine mothering.

Fearlessly Feminine

...before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...

A Familiar Rain

No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a life out of the ordinary; and then it seems improbable like fiction.

Futility

Is a few hours of hell-raising, or respite from life's toil worth this every morning?

The Girl Behind the Painted Smile: My battle with the bottle

So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing. The answer to that is no.

How I Came to Sparkle Again

Why bother? Maybe the world’s not worth saving.” She knew he meant it, too. Those lifeless eyes spoke volumes.

Heir of Fire

No matter what you may have to overcome...it's always worth chasing your dream!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

The gnomons's shadow falls where it falls - and so do we. Where we are now is where a lifetime's worth of steps have taken us.

Before Ever After

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

Baffled to Fight Better

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you - it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

The Beautiful and Damned