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H. P. Lovecraft

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VICTOR LAVALLE Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
GRAHAM GREENE We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.
KRITI SANON Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid a...
ELVIS MITCHELL Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulh...
H.P. LOVECRAFT It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.
DENG XIAOPING Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at i...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often d...
JEFFREY ARCHER Nico studied his face – his sea-green eyes, his grin, his ruffled black hair. Somehow Percy Jackso...
RICK RIORDAN I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.
HEATH LEDGER The game is not black and white, the game is grey. If I could tell you everything that's going to ha...
FLIP SAUNDERS In that game, I don't think we were blue, white, black, or whatever collar. We didn't play well.
CURTIS MARTIN For grey matter, there is no black and white. If you think in black and white, then you do not use e...
PETEK KABAKCI 'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H...
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MEGHAN MARKLE I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black...
JENNIFER MORRISON I don't even want to touch on the topic of black quarterback, because I think this game is bigge...
CAM NEWTON I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
CHARLES BARKLEY Spices are like colors: if you mix them all together you get a taste that is akin to the colors blac...
CLIFFORD COHEN We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain yo...
EARTHA KITT I had seen the world as either white or black.
It is only when I read the pages of her diary th...
SANHITA BARUAH Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not b...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or...
C. JOYBELL C. My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you?...
FLEUR EAST You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.
KEITH RICHARDS There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.
LISA LING The world is not made up of black or white, it's a mixture of those colors that gets blurred togethe...
RACHELLE MILLS, FIN'S CLAIM I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Trues and lies are not as black or white...
PHILIP T. M. We didn't care if you were white, black, green, yellow or polka-dotted. We just wanted to know where...
BOBBY SEALE Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was...
BERRY GORDY Some people live such boring lives; it’s Black & White, so dead! I choose to color my life with Fu...
RVM There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.
REBECCA SOLNIT Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything i...
RUSSELL PETERS We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
BARBARA JORDAN Nothing is ever black and white, Nila. You should know that bu now. Its all how you survive the grey...
PEPPER WINTERS Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars / White, black, and grey, with all their trumpery.
JOHN MILTON Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimaeras—dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies—may reproduce themselv...
CHARLES LAMB I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kin...
CHARLIE SIEM This was not a white or black issue; it was an issue of right or wrong.
CHARLES MCELVEEN These are issues that are not either black or white, but they are issues that are compassionate,
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OGLALA LAKOTA I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the ...
KAREN MARIE MONING No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white gi...
MUHAMMAD ALI Everyday we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green ...
THICH NHAT HANH Its not easy taking your own advice, accepting what you don't like hearing, & seeing the grey am...
APRIL MAE MONTERROSA This is not about race or affiliation, and it isn't about black versus blue. All lives matter.
MARCIA FUDGE The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's ...
DAVID BOWIE Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.
WILL ARNETT People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is n...
THICH NHAT HANH People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is n...
THICH NHAT HANH There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
CHRIS HEIMERDINGER The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are ...
ALBERT MURRAY There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed ...
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. Wha...
EMANUEL CELLER Not just seeing black and white or Hispanic or Latino. But, seeing you're just like me and it's ok.
KATHY JOHNSON Like it or not... that's my story and I can't do that or that each action by itself is a limitation.
DEYTH BANGER Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
ALICE HOFFMAN Franklin knew that the truth lay with the winter night: the world was silent and black-and-white.
STEVEN MILLHAUSER When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purp...
FUZZY ZOELLER At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more ri...
VINCENT VAN GOGH The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good f...
ERIQ LA SALLE Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat that catches the mice.
SIR WILLIAM WATSON (2) There's something about blue eyes.

The kind of blue that startles you every time they're ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be i...
SAFAK PAVEY Love is like music,most times it never discriminates between the rich or poor,old or young,male or f...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there’s only grey – no bad guys, no good guys. Y...
ARNOLD ARRE Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.
PROVERB Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.
SPANISH PROVERB A jade curtain of willow fronds parts world of green earth from that of blue pond A grey curtain of ...
SAIOM SHRIVER Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple sto...
JEAN DUJARDIN The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-b...
BEN SHAPIRO No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey
SHINDE SWEETY If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-whit...
ERIC LIU Grey is… such a mean word. I don’t remember a time when I thought grey was anything but… pain....
DEE JUUSAN H-P is probably quite worried, not just about PCs and servers but what Dell will do in printers, par...
GABRIEL LOWY Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white ...
JESSE JACKSON Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and...
JESSE JACKSON Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race – it is beyond rel...
ABHIJIT NASKAR HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose
KEN BLANCHARD HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose.
KEN BLANCHARD There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's...
JOHN F. DODGE There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it'...
JOHN F. DODGE It is wiser to research death,for death is the common end of all mortals,white or black,rich or poor...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
BIBLE The worst thing you can do is allow this by being silent. We could not have made it without fair-min...
CHARLES STEELE People think black is one color and it's not. There are blue-blacks, brown-blacks, metallic blacks, ...
BONNIE YOUNG We had each reacted differently in a moment of terror, and yet we both still hurt. Maybe there was n...
MIA SHERIDAN Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real...
HALLE BERRY A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mou...
IQBAL QUADIR All our dreams can manifest in life not because we are white or black,but because we believe.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don'...
WILLIE WELLS It's complicated. There's nothing about this that's black or white at all.
BARRY JACKSON It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.
DENG XIAOPING

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In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulh...
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H.P. LOVECRAFT Though at times interested in reforms, notably prohibition (I have never tasted alcoholic liquor), I...
H.P. LOVECRAFT The social prestige of wine at table and at the club must be destroyed through lofty example and pol...
H.P. LOVECRAFT The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i...
H.P. LOVECRAFT I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and flowers ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make t...
H.P. LOVECRAFT At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, th...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate...
H.P. LOVECRAFT No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
H.P. LOVECRAFT Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.
H.P. LOVECRAFT I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thou...
H.P. LOVECRAFT That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
H.P. LOVECRAFT They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT There is in certain ancient things a trace
Of some dim essence --
More than form or weight...
H.P. LOVECRAFT He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers h...
H.P. LOVECRAFT We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages.
H.P. LOVECRAFT Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changele...
H.P. LOVECRAFT What do we know,” he had said, “of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving i...
H.P. LOVECRAFT The cloudless day is richer at its close;
A golden glory settles on the lea;
Soft, stealin...
H.P. LOVECRAFT To say that we actually believed in vampires or werewolves would be a carelessly inclusive statement...
H.P. LOVECRAFT I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.
H.P. LOVECRAFT After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the...
H P (HENRY PEACH) ROBINSON Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO