![]() FanStory wrote to Mike Battaglia: Congratulations! The Danforth State Mental Hospital 3 is the new Story of the Month! |
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Great job my fellow horror hound. You've really put horror on the map around here! It's about time someone did... Bravo!!! ![]() - | ||
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Mike Battaglia: The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. --H.P. Lovecraft |
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Mike Battaglia: If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. --Bob Marley, Guitar Chord Songbook - Bob Marley |
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Mike Battaglia: You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go... --Dr. Seuss |
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Mike Battaglia: Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. --Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Mike Battaglia: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. --Theodore Roosevelt |
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Mike Battaglia: If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf. --Lemony Snicket, Horseradish |
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Mike Battaglia: The better informed you are, the more you realize how much you still don't know. --Harry Mulligan III |
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Mike Battaglia: "Wisdom is the easiest thing in the world to possess, but damn near impossible to apply to one's own life." --Harry Mulligan III |
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Mike Battaglia: Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves... --Henry Ward Beecher (I stole this from Dean Kuch... Thanks, Dean) |
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Mike Battaglia: Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. --Graham Greene (I stole this quote from A Matter Of Words. It's her favourite quote. I had to have it.) |
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Mike Battaglia: Then I take it this place, this Maple Street, is not unique? By no means. The world is full of Maple Streets. And we'll go from one to the other, and let them destroy themselves... --The Twilight Zone, Episode 20: 'The Monsters are Due on Maple Street' |
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Mike Battaglia: I live by the philosophy that everything happens for a reason. Sometimes it requires a little, or a lot, of soul searching. And, sometimes, we have to accept that the reason isn't ours to know. Just because we find ourselves on the stage, doesn't mean the play is about us. --Debbie Wingate (Dreamin')-- News from the Northwoods |
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May 12 at 3:25PM - | ||
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Thank you. All of you :) - | ||
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