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Seth Grahame-Smith is an American author known for his unique literary style and modern interpretations of classic stories. His works often blend history, horror, and humor, and have gained popularity among readers.

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“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?”

Men Love Giving Important Ends Age Ambition Consequence Seasons Bounds Dear Passages Urgency Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Seth 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.”

Men May Has Beens Stories Night Father Memories Attention Details Tales Swear Listeners

Author:Seth Grahame-Smith

“There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.”

Knows Men Two Ideas War Faces Desire Fighting Havens Type Intention

Author:Seth Grahame-Smith

“The day Henry made a choice... that some men are just too interesting to die.”

Men Made Dies Choices Interesting

Author:Seth 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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Book:Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.”

Men Giving Half Middle Pages Bird Angry Fingers Killing Bottom Tiny Giants Eagles Mock Razors Talons Caption Middle Finger

Author:Seth 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?”

Men Way Should Kind Darkness Kings Superiors Lions Sheep Confined

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“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.”

Men Littles Has Beens War Blood Boredom Shed Mosquitoes Chopping Firewood

Author:Seth Grahame-Smith

“Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for I shall not have my best warrior resigned to the service of a man who is fatter than Buddha and duller than the edge of a learning sword.”

Ifs Men Mother Edges Warrior You Again Resigned Mr Collins

Book:Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

“Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.”

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Book:Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.”

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Author:Seth Grahame-Smith

About the Author

Born: January 4, 1976
Known for: Author
Quotes: 99

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Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesRelated source material

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire HunterRelated source material

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie MayhemRelated source material

Abraham Lincoln Vampire HunterRelated source material

How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the KillsRelated source material

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