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Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.”

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American author, poet, editor, and literary critic. Known for his short stories and poetry, particularly his works of horror and mystery. His most famous works include 'The Black Cat', 'The Raven', and 'Annabel Lee'. more

“There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman's voice; others prefer/ simply to gaze upon me, my face/ turned from them as they touch/ only themselves. And then there are those,/ of course, whose desires I cannot commit/ to paper.”

Men Want Faces Desire Courses Voice Paper Commit Tone

Book:Bellocq's Ophelia: Poems

Source: Bellocq's Ophelia: Poems

“Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.”

People Trying Firsts Sometimes Funny Easy Animal Eating Harder Killing Betrayal Pretending Cunning Hypocrite I Hate You Predator Crocodiles Plainness Friend Betrayal

Author:Steve Irwin

“In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.”

Country Literature Pay Attention Design Duty Expected Tone Dictatorship Harmonious Exhibits Free Country

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.”

Space Taught Wind Wall Bird Garden Clouds Dust Thirst Epiphany Minerals Lizards Tedium Puncture

Book:A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems

Source: A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems

“I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.”

People Want Self Home Opinion Products Involved Self Contained

Author:Jo Brand

“I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.”

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Book:Tigger Tales

Source: Tigger Tales

“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”

Has Beens Wise Lear

Book:William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

“What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.”

Mind Matter Ears What Matters Deafness

Author:Victor Hugo

“Presume not that I am the thing I was.”

Art Philosophy Growth History Falstaff

Author:William Shakespeare

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