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• Everyone carries around his own monsters.

  Richard Pryor

  Carrie

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Miserable, Creation, Frankenstein's Monster

  Frankenstein ch. 5 (1818)

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• To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

  John Steinbeck

  Honesty, Men, Soul

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.66, Penguin

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• Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beauty, Forever, Secret

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.41

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• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Adversity, Men

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• In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

  Bette Davis

  Stars, Known

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• Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Individuality, Wicked World

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• O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Envy, Tragedy

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

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• I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed
  monster!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Laughing, Puppy

  William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (2001). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1084, A&C Black

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• At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don’t believe that it’s when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he’s able to do them, and that he does them well.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Believe, Men, Doe

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• A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

  Adrienne Rich

  Sleep, Thinking

  Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" l. 26 (1963)

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• Imagination creates some big monsters.

  Olivier Martinez

  Imagination, Bigs

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• What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Eye, Cities, Needs

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• In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Miracle, Humans, Greater

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• Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.

  Mary McCarthy

  Devil, Doe, Calling

  "The writing on the wall: and Other Literary Essays (The Hue and Cry)". Book by Mary McCarthy, 1970.

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• Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.

  Ogden Nash

  Miracle

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

  Tori Amos

  Thinking, Soul, Knows

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• I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Invisible, Incapable, Knows

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• There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Two, Waiting, Alive

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• The monsters are in your own head

  Paula Cole

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• Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

  Horace Mann

  Ignorance, Soul, Ignorant

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.143

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• The monster was the best friend I ever had.

  Boris Karloff

  Friendship, Best Friend, Movie

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sight, Might, Creator

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• The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.

  Rick Yancey

  Demand, Definitions, Monstrous

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Curse of the Wendigo”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

  Francisco Goya

  Criminal Mind, Abandoned Buildings, Impossible

  Lucia P. Iannone, Francisco Goya (1981). “Goya: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr. Arthur Ross, Yale University Art Gallery, September 16-November 15, 1981”

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