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Post by freelance on Oct 2, 2020 18:16:12 GMT -5
I am hoping to source an online quote attributed to REH. "It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living". I have seen it on goodreads.com and quoteslyfe.com, but never sourced.
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Post by terryallenuk on Oct 3, 2020 12:48:29 GMT -5
Don't know but I've asked some guys who might.I'd guess it's from a letter.
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kele
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Post by kele on Oct 3, 2020 13:57:13 GMT -5
HP Lovecraft said something similar in a letter:
"All the loudest aesthetic & philosophic voices of the hour are howling & whining doctrines & values which can lead to nothing save disintegration, chaos, & the death of all the background-factors which give life the illusion of being worth living."
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Post by terryallenuk on Oct 3, 2020 15:21:37 GMT -5
Couple of REH scholars have come back to me and said it's NOT an REH quote. One of them said "REH has a couple different lines related to "worth living," but not that one in any of his fiction or letters. I think it was probably a misinterpretation of a line from THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD (1996) based on Novalyne Price's memoir." If I get anything else back I'll let you know.
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