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title: "71 Allan poe Quotes by 65 authors"
description: "Browse 71 Allan poe quotes by 65 authors. Discover the best Allan poe sayings and thoughts."
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> [Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lennon/man-you-should-have-seen-them-kicking-edgar-allan-poe/)

[John Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lennon/)

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> [Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giles-foden/detective-fiction-could-not-have-existed-without-edgar-allan-poe/)

[Giles Foden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giles-foden/)

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> [I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-was-warped-early-by-ray-bradbury-and-edgar-allan-poe-i-was-very/)

[Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/)

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> [“I didn’t even know a heart could beat so loudly, and it reminds me of an Edgar Allan Poe story”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-oliver/i-didn-t-even-know-a-heart-could-beat-so-loudly-and-it-reminds-me-of/)

[Lauren Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-oliver/)

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> [“It was a story by Edgar Allan Poe" "I didn't know the Teletubbies had first names ...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-a-lancaster/it-was-a-story-by-edgar-allan-poe-i-didn-t-know-the-teletubbies-had/)

[Mike A. Lancaster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-a-lancaster/)

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> [My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-lynch/my-favorite-poem-ever-was-annabel-lee-by-edgar-allan-poe/)

[Ross Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-lynch/)

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> [The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/the-sky-was-the-color-of-edgar-allan-poe-s-pajamas/)

[Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/)

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> [I do like a good mystery. I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe now. I also like autobiographies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-van-praagh/i-do-like-a-good-mystery-i-m-reading-edgar-allan-poe-now-i-also-like/)

[James Van Praagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-van-praagh/)

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> [“Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-trandahl/edgar-allan-poe-s-writings-showed-me-perfectly-that-there-can-be-such/)

[Nicholas Trandahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-trandahl/)

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> [“The poet Edgar Allan Poe described the false awakening phenomenon long before Carl Jung was born. He wrote, ‘All that we see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-poet-edgar-allan-poe-described-the-false-awakening-phenomenon/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [Edgar Allan Poe is amazing because he was so dark. He's from Baltimore and so cynical that you can feel it when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/goldlink/edgar-allan-poe-is-amazing-because-he-was-so-dark-he-s-from-baltimore/)

[Goldlink](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/goldlink/)

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> [I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilarie-burton/i-ve-named-a-couple-things-after-edgar-allan-poe-the-cat-and-my/)

[Hilarie Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilarie-burton/)

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> [“EDGAR ALLAN POE was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, the second of three children born to actors David Poe Jr.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/edgar-allan-poe-was-born-on-january-19-1809-in-boston-the-second-of/)

[Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/)

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> [I always thought it would be really, really cool to play Edgar Allan Poe, because when I was a kid, he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-miller/i-always-thought-it-would-be-really-really-cool-to-play-edgar-allan/)

[Ezra Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-miller/)

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> [I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eden-robinson/i-was-born-on-the-same-day-as-edgar-allan-poe-and-dolly-parton/)

[Eden Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eden-robinson/)

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> [The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-cheever/the-actual-american-childhood-is-less-norman-rockwell-and-walt-disney/)

[Susan Cheever](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-cheever/)

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> [“I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-stashower/i-have-not-only-labored-solely-for-the-benefit-of-others-receiving-2/)

[Daniel Stashower](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-stashower/)

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> [“RAVEN: THE GOLD-BUG is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, originally published in 1843. Poe won a short story contest and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-chambliss-bertman/raven-the-gold-bug-is-a-short-story-by-edgar-allan-poe-originally/)

[Jennifer Chambliss Bertman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-chambliss-bertman/)

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> [I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linus-pauling/i-made-use-of-the-college-library-by-borrowing-books-other-than/)

[Linus Pauling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linus-pauling/)

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> [“And so it is with old HPL: the very model of an 18th century hipster, born decades too late to be one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/and-so-it-is-with-old-hpl-the-very-model-of-an-18th-century-hipster/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Aside from being famous, what do Beethoven, Mark Rothko, Hemingway, Francis Ford Coppola, Van Gogh, Alvin Ailey, Robin Williams, Sylvia Plath, Balzac,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/b-a-shapiro/aside-from-being-famous-what-do-beethoven-mark-rothko-hemingway/)

[B.A. Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/b-a-shapiro/)

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> [If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-crisp/if-mr-vincent-price-were-to-be-co-starred-with-miss-bette-davis-in-a/)

[Quentin Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-crisp/)

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> [“Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-barger/literature-is-the-most-noble-of-professions-in-fact-it-is-about-the-2/)

[Andrew Barger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-barger/)

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> [Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even to close family, friends or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynda-resnick/epilepsy-is-a-disease-in-the-shadows-patients-are-often-reluctant-to/)

[Lynda Resnick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynda-resnick/)

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> [“You hear a lot about the benefits of insanity or whatever - like, Dr. Karen Singh had once told me this Edgar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/you-hear-a-lot-about-the-benefits-of-insanity-or-whatever-like-dr/)

[John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/)

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> [After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-de-goncourt/after-reading-edgar-allan-poe-something-the-critics-have-not-noticed/)

[Jules de Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-de-goncourt/)

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> [“Weird fiction is a strange beast, an eclectic genre (or subgenre). It originated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-marshall/weird-fiction-is-a-strange-beast-an-eclectic-genre-or-subgenre-it/)

[Helen Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-marshall/)

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> [“Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/edgar-allan-poe-was-an-american-poet-short-story-writer-playwright/)

[Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/)

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> [“There's no question about it. The arts are an extremely high-risk situation. People are willing to take these extraordinary chances to become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut/there-s-no-question-about-it-the-arts-are-an-extremely-high-risk/)

[Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut/)

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> [“The Rough Beast snorted. “You don’t get it at all, buddy. It’s not about wrestling. It’s about stories. We’re storytellers.” Caperton studied…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/the-rough-beast-snorted-you-don-t-get-it-at-all-buddy-it-s-not-about/)

[Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/)

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> [“The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brent-weeks/the-truth-is-everyone-likes-to-look-down-on-someone-if-your-favorites/)

[Brent weeks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brent-weeks/)

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> [“On a spring day in 1988…a Massachusetts man who collected books about local history was rummaging through a bin in a New…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allison-hoover-bartlett/on-a-spring-day-in-1988-a-massachusetts-man-who-collected-books-about/)

[Allison Hoover Bartlett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allison-hoover-bartlett/)

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> [“To the Greeks this problem of the conditions of poetic production, and the places occupied by either spontaneity or self-consciousness in any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-the-greeks-this-problem-of-the-conditions-of-poetic-production-and/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [“Quote from "The Dish Keepers of Honest House" …TO TWIST THE COLD is easy when its only water you want. Tapping of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helene-hinson-staley/quote-from-the-dish-keepers-of-honest-house-to-twist-the-cold-is-easy/)

[Helene Hinson Staley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helene-hinson-staley/)

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> [“Suffice it to say I was compelled to create this group in order to find everyone who is, let's say, borrowing liberally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-schmelling/suffice-it-to-say-i-was-compelled-to-create-this-group-in-order-to/)

[Sarah Schmelling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-schmelling/)

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> [“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/do-you-know-why-teachers-use-me-because-i-speak-in-tongues-i-write/)

[Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/)

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> [“My dear reader, have you seen the bizarre contraption that the inhabitants of this futuristic age carry in their pockets? It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/my-dear-reader-have-you-seen-the-bizarre-contraption-that-the/)

[Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/)

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> [“Sippy had described them as England's premier warts, and it looked to me as if he might be about right. Professor Pringle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-g-wodehouse/sippy-had-described-them-as-england-s-premier-warts-and-it-looked-to/)

[P.G. Wodehouse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-g-wodehouse/)

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> [“It was all Mrs. Waddington could do to refrain from hurling a bust of Edgar Allan Poe at her head.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-g-wodehouse/it-was-all-mrs-waddington-could-do-to-refrain-from-hurling-a-bust-of/)

[P.G. Wodehouse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-g-wodehouse/)

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> [I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-richter/i-briefly-considered-doing-edgar-allan-poe-and-just-swearing-a-lot/)

[Andy Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-richter/)

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                        "text": "“You hear a lot about the benefits of insanity or whatever - like, Dr. Karen Singh had once told me this Edgar Allan Poe quote: \"The question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.\" I guess she was trying to make me feel better, but I find mental disorders to be vastly overrated. Madness, in my admittedly limited experience, is accompanied by no superpowers; being mentally unwell doesn't make you loftily intelligent any more than having the flu does.”",
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                        "text": "After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature. No more poetry but analytic fantasy. Something monomaniacal. Things playing a more important part than people; love giving away to deductions and other forms of ideas, style, subject and interest. The basis of the novel transferred from the heart to the head, from the passion to the idea, from the drama to the denouement.",
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                        "text": "“Weird fiction is a strange beast, an eclectic genre (or subgenre). It originated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century through the works of authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, and M. R. James, and has since developed over the course of the last hundred years to encompass new writers such as China Miéville, M. John Harrison and others. Weird fiction is notable for its generic uncertainty; it exists at the boundary between science fiction and horror—perhaps—or between literary fiction and horror—perhaps—or between Lovecraft and whatever happens to be floating close to hand at any given moment—perhaps!”",
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                        "text": "“Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre.Poe died at the age of 40. The cause of his death is undetermined and has been attributed to alcohol, drugs, cholera, rabies, suicide (although likely to be mistaken with his suicide attempt in the previous year), tuberculosis, heart disease, brain congestion and other agents. Source: Wikipedia”",
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                        "text": "“There's no question about it. The arts are an extremely high-risk situation. People are willing to take these extraordinary chances to become writers, musicians or painters, and because of them we have a culture. If this ever stops, our culture will die, because most of our culture, in fact, has been created by people that got paid nothing for it-- People like Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent van Gogh or Mozart. So, yes, it's a very foolish thing to do, notoriously foolish, but it seems human to attempt it anyway.”",
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                        "text": "“The Rough Beast snorted. “You don’t get it at all, buddy. It’s not about wrestling. It’s about stories. We’re storytellers.” Caperton studied him. “Somebody at my job just said that.” “It’s true! You have to be able to tell the story to get people on board for anything. A soft drink, a suck sesh, elective surgery, gardening, even your thing--public space? I prefer private space, but that’s cool. Anyway, nobody cares about anything if there isn’t a story attached. Ask the team that wrote the Bible. Ask Vincent Allan Poe.” “But doesn’t it seem kind of creepy?” Caperton said. “All of us just going around calling ourselves storytellers?” The Rough Beast shrugged. “Well, you can be negative. That’s the easy way out.”",
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                        "text": "“On a spring day in 1988…a Massachusetts man who collected books about local history was rummaging through a bin in a New Hampshire antiques barn when something caught his eye. Beneath texts on fertilizers and farm machines lay a slim, worn pamphlet with tea-colored paper covers, titled Tamerlane and Other Poems, by an unnamed author identified simply as “a Bostonian.” He was fairly certain he had found something exceptional, paid the $15 price, and headed home, where Tamerlane would spend only one night. The next day, he contacted Sotheby’s, and they confirmed his suspicion that he had just made one of the most exciting book discoveries in years. The pamphlet was a copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s first text, written when he was only fourteen years old, a find that fortune-seeking collectors have imagined happening upon probably more than they’d like to admit. The humble-looking, forty-page pamphlet was published in 1827 by Calvin F.S. Thomas, a relatively unknown Boston printer who specialized in apothecary labels, and its original price was about twelve cents. But this copy, looking good for its 161 years, most of which were probably spent languishing in one dusty attic box after another, would soon be auctioned for a staggering $198,000.”",
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                        "text": "“To the Greeks this problem of the conditions of poetic production, and the places occupied by either spontaneity or self-consciousness in any artistic work, had a peculiar fascination. We find it in the mysticism of Plato and in the rationalism of Aristotle. We find it later in the Italian Renaissance agitating the minds of such men as Leonardo da Vinci. Schiller tried to adjust the balance between form and feeling, and Goethe to estimate the position of self-consciousness in art. Wordsworth’s definition of poetry as ‘emotion remembered in tranquillity’ may be taken as an analysis of one of the stages through which all imaginative work has to pass; and in Keats’s longing to be ‘able to compose without this fever’ (I quote from one of his letters), his desire to substitute for poetic ardour ‘a more thoughtful and quiet power,’ we may discern the most important moment in the evolution of that artistic life. The question made an early and strange appearance in your literature too; and I need not remind you how deeply the young poets of the French romantic movement were excited and stirred by Edgar Allan Poe’s analysis of the workings of his own imagination in the creating of that supreme imaginative work which we know by the name of THE RAVEN.”",
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                        "text": "“Quote from \"The Dish Keepers of Honest House\" …TO TWIST THE COLD is easy when its only water you want. Tapping of the toothbrush echoes into Ella's mind like footsteps clacking a cobbled street on a bitter, dry, cold morning. Her mind pushes through sleep her body craves. It catches her head falling into a warm, soft pillow. \"Go back to bed,\" she tells herself. \"You're still asleep,\" Ella mumbles, pushes the blanket off, and sits up. The urgency to move persuades her to keep routines. Water from the faucet runs through paste foam like a miniature waterfall. Ella rubs sleep-deprieved eyes, then the bridge of her nose and glances into the sink. Ella's eyes astutely fixate for one, brief millisecond. Water becomes the burgundy of soldiers exiting the drain. Her mouth drops in shock. The flow turns green. It is like the bubbling fungus of flockless, fishless, stagnating ponds. Within the iridescent glimmer of her thinking -- like a brain losing blood flow, Ella's focus is the flickering flashing of gray, white dust, coal-black shadows and crows lifting from the ground. A half minute or two trails off before her mind returns to reality. Ella grasps a toothbrush between thumb and index finger. She rests the outer palm against the sink's edge, breathes in and then exhales. Tension in the brow subsides, and her chest and shoulders drop; she sighs. Ella stares at pasty foam. It exits the drain as if in a race to clear the sink of negativity -- of all germs, slimy spit, the burgundy of imagined soldiers and oppressive plaque. GRASPING THE SILKY STRAND between her fingers, Ella tucks, pulls and slides the floss gently through her teeth. Her breath is an inch or so of the mirror. Inspections leave her demeanor more alert. Clouding steam of the image tugs her conscience. She gazes into silver glass. Bits of hair loosen from the bun piled at her head's posterior. What transforms is what she imagines. The mirror becomes a window. The window possesses her Soul and Spirit. These two become concerned -- much like they did when dishonest housekeepers disrupted Ella's world in another story. Before her is a glorious bird -- shining-dark-as-coal, shimmering in hues of purple-black and black-greens. It is likened unto The Raven in Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem of 1845. Instead of interrupting a cold December night with tapping on a chamber door, it rests its claws in the decorative, carved handle of a backrest on a stiff dining chair. It projects an air of humor and concern. It moves its head to and fro while seeking a clearer understanding. Ella studies the bird. It is surrounded in lofty bends and stretches of leafless, acorn-less, nearly lifeless, oak trees. Like fingers and arms these branches reach below. [Perhaps they are reaching for us? Rest assured; if they had designs on us, I would be someplace else, writing about something more pleasant and less frightening. Of course, you would be asleep.] Balanced in the branches is a chair. It is from Ella's childhood home. The chair sways. Ella imagines modern-day pilgrims of a distant shore. Each step is as if Mother Nature will position them upright like dolls, blown from the stability of their plastic, flat, toe-less feet. These pilgrims take fate by the hand. LIFTING A TOWEL and patting her mouth and hands, Ella pulls the towel through the rack. She walks to the bedroom, sits and picks up the newspaper. Thumbing through pages that leave fingertips black, she reads headlines: \"Former Dentist Guilty of Health Care Fraud.\" She flips the page, pinches the tip of her nose and brushes the edge of her chin -- smearing both with ink. In the middle fold directly affront her eyes is another headline: \"Dentist Punished for Misconduct.\" She turns the page. There is yet another: \"Dentist guilty of urinating in surgery sink and using contaminated dental instruments on patients.\" This world contains those who are simply insane! Every profession has those who stray from goals…”",
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                        "text": "“Suffice it to say I was compelled to create this group in order to find everyone who is, let's say, borrowing liberally from my INESTIMABLE FOLIO OF CANONICAL MASTERPIECES (sorry, I just do that sometimes), and get you all together. It's the least I could do. I mean, seriously. Those soliloquies in Moby-Dick ? Sooo Hamlet and/or Othello, with maybe a little Shylock thrown in. Everyone from Pip in Great Expectations to freakin' Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre mentions my plays, sometimes completely mangling my words in nineteenth-century middle-American dialect for humorous effect (thank you, Sir Clemens). Many people ( cough Virginia Woolf cough ) just quote me over and over again without attribution. I hear James Joyce even devoted a chapter of his giant novel to something called the \"Hamlet theory,\" though do you have some sort of newfangled English? It looks like gobbledygook to me. The only people who don't seek me out are like Chaucer and Dante and those ancient Greeks. For whatever reason. And then there are the titles. The Sound and the Fury ? Mine. Infinite Jest ? Mine. Proust, Nabokov, Steinbeck, and Agatha Christie all have titles that are me-inspired. Brave New World ? Not just the title, but half the plot has to do with my work. Even Edgar Allan Poe named a character after my Tempest 's Prospero (though, not surprisingly, things didn't turn out well for him!). I'm like the star to every wandering bark, the arrow of every compass, the buzzard to every hawk and gillyflower ... oh, I don't even know what I'm talking about half the time. I just run with it, creating some of the SEMINAL TOURS DE FORCE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. You're welcome.”",
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                        "text": "“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. The great religions are all metaphor. We appreciate things like Daniel and the lion’s den, and the Tower of Babel. People remember these metaphors because they are so vivid you can’t get free of them and that’s what kids like in school. They read about rocket ships and encounters in space, tales of dinosaurs. All my life I’ve been running through the fields and picking up bright objects. I turn one over and say, Yeah, there’s a story. And that’s what kids like. Today, my stories are in a thousand anthologies. And I’m in good company. The other writers are quite often dead people who wrote in metaphors: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne. All these people wrote for children. They may have pretended not to, but they did.”",
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                        "text": "“My dear reader, have you seen the bizarre contraption that the inhabitants of this futuristic age carry in their pockets? It is a miniature computer, a gateway to knowledge itself, and yet so much more. This strange device seems to do everything for its owner, from telling the time to cooking meals. It maps their journeys, provides entertainment, and even claims to be able to predict the future! It holds the world's information in its palm, yet some use it merely to gaze at the visages of strangers. Such is the confusion of progress, that it gives with one hand and takes away with the other. For all its wonders, this pocket computer seems to me a dubious invention. It renders men dependent rather than self-reliant, and alters solitude into a deficit rather than a richness. Do none gather 'round the midnight fire anymore to share tales of mystery and imagination? Have stories been supplanted by streams and alerts? And must every waking hour be filled with stimulation and information? Some may call me a curmudgeon, fretting over innovations I do not comprehend. But I believe there is virtue to be found in simple pleasures and uninterrupted contemplation. Not everything that glitters is gold, and there is beauty to be discovered away from screens and lights. So observe this curious device if you like, but do not forget to look up from its glow. Seek out the darkness and the quiet, explore without maps or GPS. For there you may find truths more valuable than all the knowledge in the world. In suspense, Your friend, Edgar Allan Poe (Poe talking about the smartphone.)”",
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                        "text": "“Sippy had described them as England's premier warts, and it looked to me as if he might be about right. Professor Pringle was a thinnish, baldish, dyspeptic-lookingish cove with an eye like a haddock, while Mrs Pringle's aspect was that of one who had had bad news round about the year 1900 and never really got over it. And I was just staggering under the impact of these two when I was introduced to a couple of ancient females with shawls all over them. \"No doubt you remember my mother?\" said Professor Pringle mournfully, indicating Exhibit A. \"Oh - ah!\" I said, achieving a bit of a beam. \"And my aunt,\" sighed the Prof, as if things were getting worse and worse. \"Well, well, well!\" I said shooting another beam in the direction of Exhibit B. \"They were saying only this morning that they remembered you,\" groaned the Prof, abandoning all hope. There was a pause. The whole strength of the company gazed at me like a family group out of one of Edgar Allan Poe's less cheery yarns, and I felt my joie de vivre dying at the roots. \"I remember Oliver,\" said Exhibit A. She heaved a sigh. \"He was such a pretty child. What a pity! What a pity!\" Tactful, of course, and calculated to put the guest completely at his ease.”",
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