Quotes by Laird Barron - Page 1

Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.
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Cat
Curiosity
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THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.
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Eagles
Epic
Scope
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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Boxes
Grandfather
Manuscripts
Rejected
Failed
Novelist
Paternal
Stacked
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Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.
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Animal
Building
Horror
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Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
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Enlightenment
Punishment
Rewards
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I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.
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Dark
Echoes
Writing
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Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.
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Dark
House
Skills
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Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath.
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Ancient
Appetite
Blood
Colossal
Maelstrom
Old Testament
Testament
Wrath
Brute
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He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.
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Fear
Curiosity
Temptation
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A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.
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Mouths
Pay
Tradition
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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Adolescence
Alaska
Dirt
Lamps
Shack
Rural
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Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.
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Hundred
Library
Likes
Mom And Dad
Favored
Love Dad Mom
Owned
Portable
Shared
Stored
Westerns
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The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.
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Blood
Light
Shining
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Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape.
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Cities
League
Years
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but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean. In my mind, here was the best kind of art-the kind hoarded by rich and jealous collectors in their locked galleries; hidden from the eyes of the heathen masses, waiting to be shared with the ripe few
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Art
Jealous
Eye
Mean
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