“This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask. I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with its beautiful stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth--a world which now trembles before the King In Yellow.” ― Robert W Chambers, The King in Yellow “This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask. I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with its beautiful stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth--a world which now trembles before the King In Yellow.”
― Robert W Chambers, The King in Yellow With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure. ~Garth Ennis check it out; http://fubar.com/lounge/101307 We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.~Alan Morre To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.~Alan Moore Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.~Alan Moore I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something. ~Neil Gaiman Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. ~ Neil Gaiman “Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?” ~Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
~Edgar Allan Poe “The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking”
~Phaedrus Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
~Jules Renard (1864 - 1910) Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
~Walt Whitman The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
~George F. Will (1941 - ) It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.
~Stone Gossard “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” ~Socrates “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
~Plutarch By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
~Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC) The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
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