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Charles Fort, born on August 6, 1874, was an American writer known for his exploration of science, mysterious phenomena, and the supernatural. His works have had a profound influence on science fiction literature and mysticism.

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“One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.”

Mind Stills Science Experiments Sensible Enquiry

Author:Charles Fort

“Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.”

Mind Sometimes Science Notes Stores Experiments Data Gross Collectors Forts Enquiry Unexplained Macabre

Book:Wild Talents

Source: Wild Talents

“Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.”

Thinking Mind Children Beautiful Standards Ugly Incomplete Venus Completeness She Is Beautiful Venus De Milo Thinking Of Her

Book:The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

Source: The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

“I shut the front door upon Christ and Einstein, and at the back door hold out a welcoming hand to little frogs and periwinkles. I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written. I cannot accept that the products of minds are subject-matter for beliefs.”

Mind Believe Littles Matter Hands Belief I Believe Christ My Own Accepting Written Doors Subjects Fronts Products Welcome Frogs Subject Matter Front Doors Back Doors Periwinkle

Book:Lo!

Source: Lo!

“If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?”

Ifs Mind Universal Sane

Author:Charles Fort

About the Author

Born: August 6, 1874
Died: May 3, 1932
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 41

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