"We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them."
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"You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings."
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"Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it."
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"This many-headed monster, Multitude."
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"I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self"
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"Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God."
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"Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster."
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"There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win."
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"To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself."
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"The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together."
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"The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!"
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"It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves."
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"My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are."
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"Because that, more than any monster, was what Sam had feared: that he was weak and cowardly. He had a terrible fear of being afraid."
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"What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order."
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"Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything."
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"Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this."
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"Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one"
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"Battle not with monsters, for then you become one."
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"Beware of that monster called 'self-loathing'."
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