“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“Something terrible came to the hills and valleys on that meteor, and something terrible — though I know not in what proportion — still remains.”
Fiction, The Colour Out of Space (1927)
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