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Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.

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Hate, Real, Real Power

"Fictional character: Henry Sturges". "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter", 2012.

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Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

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Lying, Long, Purpose

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Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.

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Love Is, World Love, Weapons

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It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.

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Book, Unique, Strange

"ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER 30 Minute Q&A with Benjamin Walker, Timur Beckmambetov, Jim Lemley and Screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. February 22, 2012.

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I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.

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Numb, Made

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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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World Love, World, Weapons

Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.241, Chronicle Books

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What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

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Book, Good Movie, Different

"Seth Grahame-Smith Exclusive Interview THE HARD TIMES OF RJ BERGER; Updates on DARK SHADOWS, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, and ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 24, 2011.

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Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for I shall not have my best warrior resigned to the service of a man who is fatter than Buddha and duller than the edge of a learning sword.

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Mother, Warrior, Men

Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.102, Quirk Books

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Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.

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Brides

Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.120, Chronicle Books

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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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Mean, Cutting, Missing

Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.163, Chronicle Books

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Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?

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Love, Ambition, Men

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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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Thinking, Hard Times, Evil

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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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Memories, Father, Night

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I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.

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Mean, Attention, Demand

Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.109, Chronicle Books

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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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War, Fighting, Men

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I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

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Mean, Doubt, Liberty

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We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

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Vampire, Library, Dissecting

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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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Christian, Husband, Finals

Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.114, Chronicle Books

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An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe.

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Fighting, Thorough Knowledge, Europe

Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.45, Chronicle Books

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put the car in "d" set the compass to "n" and get the "f"out of there

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Car, Compass

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I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.

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Loneliness, Twenties, Littles

Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.59, Quirk Books

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Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood

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Blood, People, Splits

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The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.

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Daughter, Alive, Married

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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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Dream, Art, Mind

Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.12, Quirk Books

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Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger of falling in love, and were it not for his considerable skill in the deadly arts, that he should be in danger of being bested by hers--for never had he seen a lady more gifted in the ways of vanquishing the undead.

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Falling In Love, Art, Skills

Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.49, Quirk Books

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