Kim Newman Quotes

#1. Relevance, Wilde once explained, was a careless habit that should not be over-indulged.

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#2. He left the room, and closeted himself in the dark, buzzing space where he raised his wasps and plotted the courses of heavenly bodies.

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#3. Love is always a species of insanity. If

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#4. Impaler,' she declared, 'I have no equal.

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#5. We need to stop the little girl," said Richard "pass me that shotgun.

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#6. Writing. It's a trivial pursuit, hardly worth the effort, inconsequential on any cosmic level. It's just blood and sweat and guts and bone hauled out of our bodies and fed through a typewriter to slosh all over the platen.

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#7. I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and sucks their lifeblood, transforming as well as feeding off them.

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#8. No crime too small' was never exactly Moriarty's slogan, but the criminal genius would apply himself to minor offences if an unusual challenge was presented.

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#9. Power is based, at bottom, on the ability to kill; thus the means of killing have to be available, even if only to a select few.

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#10. He stroked Tibbles, who was starting to leak and make nasty little noises.

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#11. In a battle which might interest scholars of modern urban warfare, the Conduit Street Comanche whipped the tar out of an irregular band of crybaby destitutes who pledged allegiance to the Watson's departed mucker-wallah.

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#12. It was as if there were but one woman in the world, laughing at him from behind a dozen masks.

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#13. Moriarty rarely smiled,and then usually to terrify some poor victim. The first time I heard him laugh, I thought he had been struck by a deadly poison and the stutter escaping through his locked jaws was a death rattle.

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#14. Defend Miss Haller from the Nazis. In the final chapter, the ghosts saw off the spies and word came through that Miss Haller's father had been smuggled out of Germany. Gillian

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#15. Only an idiot guesses or reasons or deduces,' the Professor said, patiently.

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#16. Places, she told herself, were not evil: they were what people made of them.

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#17. Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms ... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of Draculas unloosed on the world in the long wake of Stoker's novel.

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#18. This is the moral, Oh My Best Beloved: never kill anyone for a 'Cause'.
For why not, Uncle Basher?
Because causes don't pay, Little Friend of all the World. Adherents expect you to kill just for the righteousness of it. They don't want to pay you! They don't understand why you want paying!

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#19. Good things come to an end, bad things have to be stopped.

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#20. How did your parents come to be "lost at sea", Moriarty?'
The professor paused, and said, 'Mysteriously, Moran.

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