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The 1910 Edison film of Frankenstein was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.
Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!
With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.
And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.
Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?
Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.
One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.
Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes.
The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.
The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.
Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.
Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.
One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.
If somthing is not right or real, dont loss your self. - Clarice Bean Dont look Now
It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.
Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.
An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.
It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.
No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.
the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.
Faith has nothing to do with circumstances, it deals entirely with the Word of God.
Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess
By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health.
Kinky sex involves the use of duck feathers. Perverted sex involves the whole duck.
If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.
The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.
Probably the only thing my mom and dad agreed on was the vital importance of guilt.
You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.
If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.
I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.
It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life
figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.
The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.
I didn't know," I start truthfully, "that it was the hard way when I started on it.