"The monster nevers dies."
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"This inhuman place makes human monsters."
"I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one."
"The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice."
"When I die, they'll say Lady Gaga was special but her fans, her Monsters, they were really something"
"Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair."
"Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!"
"be careful of monsters with teeth"
"Oh, monsters are scared. That's why they're monsters."
"Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't."
"He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters."
"Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose, either. If we didn't get out hearts stomped on, shattered; if we didn't have to patch and repatch it until we're like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together by who knows what"
"Because we had to convince the scientific members of Transylvania that with the procedure I was using on the creature, Dr. Frankenstein could be taught to be a civilized human being, what I called a man about town. Instead of a monster who's going to kill their children, it was someone who could sing and dance."
"Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other."
"He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable"
"And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators."
"Well, at least I have the satisfaction of having destroyed a terrible monster, and in doing so rid the world of an awful curse."
"I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me tobe doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.... The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor."
"The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth."
"It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves."