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Bram Stoker

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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
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HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�...
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GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
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DEYTH BANGER It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
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in spite of everything,
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unless it...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

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Despair has its own calms.
BRAM STOKER We learn from failure, not from success!
BRAM STOKER There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all l...
BRAM STOKER But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
BRAM STOKER If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the fut...
BRAM STOKER There is a reason why all things are as they are.
BRAM STOKER I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles...
BRAM STOKER Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you b...
BRAM STOKER Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
BRAM STOKER Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
BRAM STOKER There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
BRAM STOKER No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning...
BRAM STOKER Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from h...
BRAM STOKER I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart ha...
BRAM STOKER I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to m...
BRAM STOKER Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in ...
BRAM STOKER Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
BRAM STOKER Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
BRAM STOKER Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
BRAM STOKER It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, al...
BRAM STOKER I sometimes think we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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BRAM STOKER There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the pro...
BRAM STOKER I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
BRAM STOKER He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to com...
BRAM STOKER She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good...
BRAM STOKER And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and...
BRAM STOKER Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, t...
BRAM STOKER Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix...
BRAM STOKER Enter freely and of your own free will!
BRAM STOKER I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced dur...
BRAM STOKER Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you m...
BRAM STOKER Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she ...
BRAM STOKER I have been so long master
that I would be master still, or at least that none other
shoul...
BRAM STOKER There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very ma...
BRAM STOKER Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if...
BRAM STOKER Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farming house far down the road - a long, agonized wailing,a...
BRAM STOKER These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How the...
BRAM STOKER In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.
BRAM STOKER Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and trouble...
BRAM STOKER Take then good note of it. Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts ...
BRAM STOKER Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
BRAM STOKER There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive.
And as she arched...
BRAM STOKER For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all th...
BRAM STOKER Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That th...
BRAM STOKER Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says...
BRAM STOKER I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry h...
BRAM STOKER The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his e...
BRAM STOKER Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who wou...
BRAM STOKER Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't wi...
BRAM STOKER Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some peo...
BRAM STOKER No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
BRAM STOKER I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
BRAM STOKER How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.
BRAM STOKER Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessn...
BRAM STOKER I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.
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BRAM STOKER Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men belie...
BRAM STOKER Nature in one of her beneficient moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own ter...
BRAM STOKER It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when K...
BRAM STOKER We learn of great things by little experiences.
BRAM STOKER I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp ...
BRAM STOKER . . . a wind howling began, which seemed to form all over the country, as far as the imagination cou...
BRAM STOKER I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to ...
BRAM STOKER Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not the tr...
BRAM STOKER Do not fear to think even the most not-probable.
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BRAM STOKER All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so dea...
BRAM STOKER I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
BRAM STOKER En la vida hay tinieblas, mi niña, pero también hay luces. Y tu eres la luz de toda luz.
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BRAM STOKER Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't, you couldn't wi...
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BRAM STOKER It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true...
BRAM STOKER I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the origina...
BRAM STOKER And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin;...
BRAM STOKER It's a tremendous step up. But you'd rather play than not play. Next week (against West Ouachita) is...
BUTCH STOKER We didn't lay well as a defense, but they had a great game plan. They were coming up with stuff we h...
BUTCH STOKER The bottom line is you're really not prepared. You just try to stick to the things you do well and h...
BUTCH STOKER It's not really the kind of game you want to open with. You want a chance to get the kinks out befor...
BUTCH STOKER I don't think we're going to play Douglass. We can't communicate with them. I know they're not going...
BUTCH STOKER You get him the ball enough times and he's going to break some. Guys like that come around once ever...
BUTCH STOKER I hope that's a preview of what we're going to see from him. That's what we expect from him.
BUTCH STOKER If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so bl...
BRAM FISCHER The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
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BRAM FISCHER I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have b...
BRAM FISCHER I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do ...
BRAM FISCHER As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.
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BRAM COHEN I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. I'm very, very good at writing...
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BRAM COHEN Give and ye shall receive.
BRAM COHEN Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political one...
BRAM COHEN Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited.
BRAM COHEN While BitTorrent already has become the de facto protocol for cooperative distribution on the Intern...
BRAM COHEN We're in talks with the MPAA.
BRAM COHEN BitTorrent will become the ideal platform for both independent publishers and the world's leading me...
BRAM COHEN Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.
CHRISTOPHER BRAM When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac.
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BRAM MESLAND All the sad moments in your life, are the roads to the nice moments in your life. Respect those sad ...
BRAM MESLAND Look into your heart and find your real self, Put your mask away and show your real face! Put your v...
BRAM MESLAND When you say NO you miss so many things, dare to say YES and experience moments in your life you wil...
BRAM MESLAND Give the other trust, and you get attention in return. Ask, listen, and respect the other in what it...
BRAM MESLAND When you are looking for something, you keep stabbing. take a step forward and the goal appears by i...
BRAM MESLAND God is not up there in the clouds, he is closer than we think. He is in our thoughts, and prayers to...
BRAM MESLAND Keep your love tightly and do not think too hard about your relationship, because doubt will separat...
BRAM MESLAND The devil in you may play a game, but never let him win!
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BRAM JOHNSON If you say you don't know weakness, You will never be Strong! Its the weakness that makes you strong...
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