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“This inhuman place makes human monsters.” Stephen King, The Shining

“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless and free from the misery I now feel.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there—there you could look at a thing monstrous and free.” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“I'm an invisible monster, and I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Never met such a Gorgon... I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair...” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Three seconds after reading the letter of the honourable Secretary of Marine, I felt that my true vocation, the sole end of my life, was to chase this disturbing monster and purge it from the world.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

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John Steinbeck (2)
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East of Eden (1)
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The Grapes of Wrath (1)
The Shining (1)