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• Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.

  Umberto Eco

  Divine, Horrible, Plans

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?

  William Shakespeare

  Voice, Lions, Hares

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• Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Wedding, Literature

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• Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

  Ezra Pound

  Pregnancy, Eye, Squares

  "Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts".

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  Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspiring, Effort, Inspire

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September, 1999.

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• Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor

  Jonathan Maberry

  Carrie

  Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.

  Glenn Frey

  Dresses, Reason, Clothings

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• The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

  Neal Schon

  Journey, Band, Gigs

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• I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

  Major Taylor

  Patience, Perseverance, Courage

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

  Christine McVie

  Perspective, Littles, Rich

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• be careful of monsters with teeth

  Harlan Ellison

  Teeth, Be Careful, Careful

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “The Harlan Ellison Hornbook”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster." Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart.

  Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

  Heart, Names, Ungrateful

  Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont “Beauty and the Beast—La Belle et la Bête English-French Parallel Text Edition”, Lulu.com

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• I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Knees, Glad

  "This imagined U.S. Open course shows no mercy" by Doug Williams, www.espn.com. Junt 8, 2017.

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• 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

  George Orwell

  Past, Sea, World

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Self, Fishing, Depth

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• Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

  Leigh Hunt

  Love, Telescopes, Affection

  Leigh Hunt, Thornton Leigh Hunt (1862). “The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt”, p.31, London : Smith, Elder

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• You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Perfect, Individuality, Mediocrity

  "Fictional character: Maurice Oboukhoff". "The Killing", www.imdb.com. 1956.

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• I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives: the parent who punches instead of kissing, the auto accident that takes a loved one, the cancer we one day discover living in our own bodies. If such terrible occurrences were acts of darkness, they might actually be easier to cope with. But instead of being dark, they have their own terrible brilliance. . . and none shine so bright as the acts of cruelty we sometimes perpetrate in our own families.

  Stephen King

  Real, Cancer, Believe

  Stephen King (2002). “The Shining”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

  Voltaire

  Children, Fanaticism

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• I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

  David Benioff

  Sleep, Insomnia, Skulls

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin

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• The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Tyrants, Ideas, Atheism

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• And maybe I am a monster. I don't know the answer to that. But what I do know is that even if there's demon blood inside me, there is human blood inside me as well. And I couldn't love you like I do if I weren't at least a little bit human. Because demons want. But they don't love.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love You, Blood, Answers

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1186, Simon and Schuster

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• One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, World, Human Nature

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.174

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• Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Nature, Voice

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Childhood, Religion

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.149, Ballantine Books

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