"You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse."
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"The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again."
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"Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons."
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"Of course the New Testament is very small. Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made."
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"She raised her head finally. He looked the same, but then, he always did. She'd seem him kill twice, and he betrayed no reaction at all. He was a monster, not even human. But he was her monster."
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"Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban"
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"I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster!"
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"But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself."
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"They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?"
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"I obsess and fantasize about whatever attractive men may be on the flight. Though these days the pickings are lean. No one flies regularly anymore but fugly, bland businessmen, and hideous families with no-neck monsters for children."
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"Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed."
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"You were afraid of shooting people?" "No," I say. "I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill." How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?"
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"We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts."
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"It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred."
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"When horror turns into gore, when you show the monster, the killings, and the blood, it loses its suggestive powers. It loses part of what makes a horror film a horror film, which is that the images you see develop in your brain and you become the one imagining what you are not seeing on screen."
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"There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren’t."
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"Adults are the real monsters."
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"We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives."
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"Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs."
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"Understand death? Sure. That was when the monsters got you."
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