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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter the course of his life, and bring a fledgeling nation to the brink of collapse. I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them?
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary grabbed her fork and leapt from her chair onto the table. Lydia, who was seated nearest her, grabbed her ankle before she could dive at Mr. Collins and, presumably, stab him about the head and neck for such an insult.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and that's not an exaggeration.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
If you're Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don't have that body of work, I don't have that audience that's comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
I like my zombies slow and I like my zombies stupid.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
It is their nature, beautiful and simple. That you would destroy such beings, Mr. Lincoln, such superior creatures, seems madness to me.” “That you speak of them with such reverence, Mr. Poe, seems madness to me.” "Can you imagine it? Can you imagine seeing the universe through such eyes? Laughing in the face of time and death—the world your Garden of Eden? Your library? Your harem?
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
My day job is making TV shows.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
My job on 'Dark Shadows' was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it can still even be gory and gothic at times, but it also needed to be fun and it needed to be an experience that people would enjoy having.
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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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By AnonymSeth Grahame-smith
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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