#now

Mind you, I cannot swear that my story is true. It may have been a dream; or worse, a symptom of some severe mental disorder. But I believe it is true. After all, how are we to know what things there are on earth? Strange monstrosities still exist, and foul, incredible perversions. Every war, each new geographical or scientific discovery, brings to light some new bit of ghastly evidence that the world is not altogether the same place we fondly imagine it to be. Sometimes peculiar incidents occur which hint of utter madness. How can we be sure that our smug conceptions of reality actually exist? To one man in a million dreadful knowledge is revealed, and the rest of us remain mercifully ignorant. There have been travelers who never came back, and research workers who disappeared. Some of those who did return were deemed mad because of what they told, and others sensibly concealed the wisdom that had so horribly been revealed. Blind as we are, we know a little of what lurks beneath our normal life. There have been tales of sea serpents and creatures of the deep; legends of dwarfs and giants; records of queer medical horrors and unnatural births. Stunted nightmares of men's personalities have blossomed into being under the awful stimulus of war, or pestilence, or famine. There have been cannibals, necrophiles, and ghouls; loathsome rites of worship and sacrifice; maniacal murders, and blasphemous crimes. When I think, then, of what I saw and heard, and compare it with certain other grotesque and unbelievable authenticities, I begin to fear for my reason. ("The Mannikin") ↗

— Robert Bloch

#occult #paranormal #rationalism-intellect #rationality #supernatural

If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.' ↗

— Flavor Flav

#definition #dope #enemy #know #means

It's surreal to know my dreams are coming true. ↗

— Mario Vazquez

#dreams #know #surreal #true

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known. ↗

— Confucius

#concerned #fit #how #instead #known

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. ↗

— Confucius

#hold #know #knowledge #thing #you

I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them! ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#delicate #dramatic #fact #find #had

I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#doing #experience #honest #i #i think

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#guitar #more #much #music #nobody

I don't know if I'm brave. ↗

— Sacha Baron Cohen

#i #know

I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible. ↗

— Sacha Baron Cohen

#been #being #dictator #difficult #documentary