Top 100 Seth Grahame-Smith Quotes
#2. It is the sort of suffering that cannot be done justice with words. I can say only this - that I suspect it is an anguish from which one never recovers. A walking death.
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#4. Never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.
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#6. Bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird. Sadly, this was the best idea I'd had in weeks.
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#7. How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
"Spoken like one who has never known the ecstasy of holding a still-beating heart in her hand.
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#8. I should like balls infinitely better," she replied, "if they were carried on in a different manner."
"You should like balls infinitely better," said Darcy, "if you knew the first thing about them.
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#9. What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
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#10. I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.
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#11. Fearing lest it might seem disrespectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom my father had once vowed to castrate.
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#12. I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!
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#13. I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels ... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.
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#14. I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to their deaths, for it is our nature to banish such thoughts.
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#15. No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your safety.
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#16. Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.
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#17. Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend."
"And I to see you dead.
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#18. If I have wounded your sister's feelings, it was done only as a consequence of affection for my friend, and the belief that Miss Bennet had been cursed to wander the earth in search of brains.
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#19. Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.
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#20. But I promise you ... this country will never be destroyed from the outside. Not by any ideology or foreign power ... and certainly not by you.
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#21. Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain that all five of them were capable of fending for themselves; that they could make tolerable fortunes as bodyguards, assassins, or mercenaries if need be.
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#22. Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood
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#23. I nearly broke out laughing when the wrteched soothsayer warned Caesar: "Beware the Ides of April." I thought it a miracle (and a relief) that no one in the udience had snickered or yelled out a correction. How could such an error be made by an actor? Had my ears deceived me?
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#24. History remembers Abe's towering intellect but forgets that, in those days, he was more towering than intellectual.
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#26. Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.
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#27. The one thing people loved more than an outlaw was seeing him punished.
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#28. Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.
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#29. We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics Henry Sturges- vampire
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#30. The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good.
Abraham Lincoln, Original Quote
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#31. That is very true," replied Elizabeth, "and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. I dare say I would've cut his throat had not the unmentionables distracted me from doing so.
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#32. Emotion is emotion, and politics is politics, and one has nothing to do with the other.
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#33. Don't be alarmed, Mr. Sturges. Some of my closest friends are dead.
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#35. That righteous anger quickly sharpens into determination. Determination, of course, being nothing more than anger with brakes and a steering wheel.
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#36. There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.
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#37. For he saw in Elizabeth's eyes a kind of darkness; a kind of absence-as if her soul had taken leave, so that compassion and warmth could not interfere.
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#38. So I suggest you stick close, pay attention, and avoid breaking the Terrorverse's only commandment: Thou shall not be stupid.
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#39. It was a sort of peace I have rarely enjoyed since. As if we were the only two souls on earth - all of nature ours to enjoy. I wondered why a creator who had dreamt such beauty would have slandered it with such evil. Such grief. Why He had not been content to leave it unspoilt. I still wonder.
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#40. Try telling a starving vampire to control himself when there's warm blood on his lips. You'd have as much luck telling a burning man not to scream.
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#41. If the wise men mounted their camels now, they could escape, no question. But Balthazar hadn't ridden into Bethlehem to run. He'd come to kill every last one of them, or die trying.
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#42. He was a cowboy with the soul of a poet. To this day, he is the most American American I've ever met.
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#43. A Strange Eastern Light "During the time of King Herod, Wise Men from the east came and asked, 'Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.'" - Matthew 2:1
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#44. One might find men in Congress who possess twice your good looks, but not one who possesses half your good sense.
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#45. Hug your children ... Kiss your mothers and fathers, your brothers and sisters. Tell them how much you love them, every day. Because every day is the last day. Every light casts a shadow. And only the gods know when the darkness will find us.
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#46. I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.
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#47. Elizabeth: "Your balls, Mr. Darcy?"
Darcy: "They belong to you, Miss Bennett.
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#48. If you can't have a little fun when you're carrying out an assassination, then what's the point?
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#49. Did this fat little priest mean to take her as a wife? She was horrified at the thought of marrying of man whose only skill with a blade was cutting slivers of gorgonzola.
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#51. The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.
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#52. I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.
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#53. I'd heard it said that when a man is tired of moving, he moves to New York, and the movement comes to him.
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#54. And though we have all the comforts of the world, we find no comfort in them.
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#55. I'm not interested in what you know," said Herod. "I'm interested in watching you scream."
"Then you're going to be disappointed." "We'll see," said Herod with a smile.
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#56. Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?
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#57. According to the laws of early twenty-first century cinema, anyone speaking Japanese is in a horror movie. If
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#58. She remembered the lead ammunition in her pocket and offered it to him. "Your balls, Mr. Darcy?" He reached out and closed her hand around them, and offered, "They belong to you, Miss Bennet.
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#59. It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.
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#60. A man can be whip smart and witty and caught up in the gale of life, chatting up roomfuls of people and making them laugh till their teeth damn near fall out, and at the same time, he can be the world's loneliest, most miserable creature.
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#66. My sisters and I cannot spend any substantial time searching for Wickham, as we are each commanded by His Majesty to defend Hertfordshire from all enemies until such time as we are dead, rendered lame, or married.
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#68. Tell you now children - you're all gonna die. No hand stamp reentry, no refund, no lie. - Found written on a bathroom stall in Disneyland, June 6th, 1988
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#69. Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.
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#70. I do not expect I shall ever again have the opportunity of defending and murdering a client in the same day. - Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
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#71. Yes," thought Elizabeth, "a summer with so few balls would be miserable indeed for a girl who thinks of little else.
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#72. How shall I ever sleep again knowing she is out there in the night? How shall I ever keep another thought in my head when she is all I care to think about?
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#73. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." At
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#74. Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.'
Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.
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#75. Captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth and beauty generally give
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#76. I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award.
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#77. There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven't the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven't the slightest idea what it is. ... Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.
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#78. I shall never relinquish my sword for a ring. The right man wouldn't ask me to.
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#80. But there are others of my kind ... those who see themselves as lions among sheep. As kings
superior to man in every way. Why, then, should they be confined to darkness? Why should they fear man?
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#82. Without death, life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told.A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish? - Henry, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
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#83. Famous murderers are only famous because they get caught. The best killers are those whose names we shall never know.
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#84. The prophecy is clear, Your Highness. The Messiah shall topple all the kingdoms of the world. Even yours.
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#85. Only words were capable of beheading a zombie," she thought, "I would presently find myself in the company of the world's two greatest warriors.
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#86. Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.
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#89. Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.
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#90. My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history - for never has there been so little war in a war.
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#91. Oh, a pipe smoker," said Henry. "Well, that narrows it down." "Sometimes," said Doyle, "there is nothing so significant as a trifle.
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#93. 'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.
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#94. Prolonging death was akin to prolonging an orgasm. The closer you could bring the victim to the finish line without crossing it, the better it
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#95. Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.
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#96. First I become flush with righteous anger, which, if you must be angry, is the very best kind.
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#97. All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian beheading and burial.
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#99. He had decided long before that he was going to loathe her. It was inconvenient therefore that she was kind.
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#100. Men have enslaved each other since they invented gods to forgive them for doing it.
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