Vampirism Quotes

• Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Submission, Butchery

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Vampire, Predator

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• There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Two, Ghouls, Vampire

  Interview with Stephen Applebaum, www.bbc.co.uk. November 26, 2001.

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• There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

  Bram Stoker

  Teaching, Past, Ghouls

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.203, Zillmann Publishing

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• I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Real, Ghouls, Vampire

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• The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

  Anne Rice

  Ghouls, Vampire, Literature

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• Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

  Joss Whedon

  Vampire, Needs, Fiction

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• Interview with a Vampire' made vampires sexy.

  Joseph Morgan

  Sexy, Vampire, Interviews

  "Joseph Morgan THE VAMPIRE DIARIES Interview; Hopes the Writers Bring Back Klaus for Another Season". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.

  Jessica Clark

  Sexy, Powerful, Vampire

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• I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.

  John Entwistle

  Ghouls, Vampire, Coming Out

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• Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with great authority while taking the reader through a brief tour of vampire lore and mythology. This is a book I'd recommend to anybody with an interest in the author or vampires. The parts which deal with vampires are obviously based on years of substantial research and personal experience.

  Joe McNally

  Book, Years, Vampire

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• The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Suicide, Catholic, Church

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.118, Penguin

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• Say what you would about the dietary requirements, vampirism sure did do great things for the skin and body.

  Nalini Singh

  Skins, Body, Requirements

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.58, Penguin

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• Did vampirism encourage Stockholm syndrome?

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Syndromes, Stockholm Syndrome, Stockholm

  MaryJanice Davidson (2004). “Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.60, Penguin

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• Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Perfect, Cost, Way To Live

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• Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.

  William S. Burroughs

  I Love Him, Guilty, Crime

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• The more romance novelists that are out there, making romanticized ideas of vampirism for the kids, the more people want to see a real action movie, putting the bad guys where they belong, as the bad guys, and looking for a hero to come along and defend our very souls.

  Corey Feldman

  Real, Hero, Kids

  "Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander Interview LOST BOYS: THE THIRST". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2010.

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• The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.

  Alexandra Cassavetes

  Sadness, Kids, Vampire

  "Xan Cassavetes Makes an Un-vampire Movie" by Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2013.

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• I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

  Alan Arkin

  Real, Order, Snakes

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