Misattributed Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

#1. Mom and Dad chatting around mouthfuls of steak while Junior used the scraps of his hamburger to buttress the walls of Fort French Fry.

Marcus Sakey

#2. I believe that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.

Seth

#3. The past is a pebble in my shoe.

Poe

#4. A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

Clarence Darrow

#5. Baby, this is why we came here," Curt breathed into her mouth. "It's romantic." He turned her, one hand on her

Tim Lebbon

#6. You would think it best to save your breath for running, but I often find screaming helps.

Mark Lawrence

#7. The shadows cannot speak.

Paula Gunn Allen

#8. A woman being never at a loss ... the devil always sticks by them.

George Gordon Byron

#9. The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

Tom Shadyac

#10. Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

Franz Grillparzer

#11. HE: History has no smell.
ME: Is that why we are nostalgic for it?
HE: Breathe in, breathe out. The past doesn't stink like the present.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. You have the right to chose your destiny, otherwise you will be left to live someone else's idea of what your life should be.

Steven Redhead

#13. You're much too beautiful for tears.

Laura Miller

#14. What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

Benjamin Franklin

#15. No one should brave the underworld alone.

Poe

#16. In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

J.M. Coetzee