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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have though

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. – H.L. Mencken

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Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. – H.L. Mencken

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Nature is a Haunted House – but Art – a House that tries to be haunted. – Emily Dickinson, 1876

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A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night. – J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister, 1891

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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. – Brian Aldiss

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Tsuki ni murakumo, hana ni kaze
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