"She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brotherâ€™s death when he accepts Lestatâ€™s offer. Frankensteinâ€™s creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Luciferâ€™s rebellion emerges from the agony of injured price. The message is clear: By all means become an abominationâ€”but only while unhinged by grief or wrath."

-- Glen Duncan

#Brother Quotes #Grief Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom”

Source : "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1, 1995.
“People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.”
“Die Hard 2 was okay. It was a little outside the template but it was okay, a hard movie to make technically. Did well at the box office. Successful.”
“Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.”

Source : "God and the Atom". Book by Ronald Knox, pp. 53 - 54, 1945.
“We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely.”

Source : "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space". Book by Gerard K. O'Neill, 1976.
“Folks, just a few minutes of my voice can change a life.”
“Just so we're clear, I'm not zen by any stretch of the imagination. However, what I've read about change being the only constant is a concept that I can grab onto and have used quite a lot.”
“If you're not getting what you want, maybe it's because you're not being heard, you're not speaking loud enough. And it's not necessarily volume-wise. It's about bringing your message and your voice, elevating it and constantly challenging it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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