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  1. "Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will." - Jos. Glanvill/Ligeia
  2. onward to the goal of a wisdom too divinely precious not to be forbidden! (E. A. Poe, Ligeia)
  3. ...that delicious vista by slow degrees expanding before me, down whose long, gorgeous, and all untrodden path, I might at length pass
  4. There was a contagion... that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.
  5. ...sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to dream dreams, and see apparitions.
  6. "...and the spectre is known, at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow." (Washington Irving)
  7. (Fitz from "How to Get Into Medical School, Part II". The previous quotation was Ming's special wisdom.)
  8. "...when you know something well enough that you can use it from the gut, and it affects the way you think, then it's an idea that you own."
  9. "Don't you see? I have to be as committed to renal anatomy as I am to us." - How to Get Into Medical School, Part II
  10. (Dean Cortina from "Take All of Murphy")
  11. "Men are odd about penises. They don't want to talk about them, but they secretly believe them to be very important, perhaps sacred."
  12. "This is awkward, but I have strong emotional suspicions. Such suspicions are not quite the same as emotions." - How to Get into...Part 1
  13. Now reading Vincent Lam's 'Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures'. http://tinyurl.com/cfozyv
  14. (Just thinking how ironic that I started this account with Lovecraft, who is probably best known for his run-on sentences. 140 chars? pff.)
  15. the night that broods beyond time." (The Lurking Fear, HPL. This story has dozens of these trademark Lovecraftian run-ons. Brilliant.)
  16. "...I felt the strangling tendrils of a cancerous horror whose roots reached into illimitable pasts and fathomless abysms of...
  17. (The Lurking Fear, HPL)
  18. ..as if giant bat-winged gryphons squatted invisibly on the mountain-tops and leered with Abaddon-eyes that had looked on trans-cosmic gulfs
  19. "There was thunder in the air on the night I went to the deserted mansion atop Tempest Mountain to find the lurking fear." -The Lurking Fear
  20. (HPL, 'The Shadow Out of Time')