“I think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading poetry and making sweet love to their victims, you know, it's not really all that scary.” ThinkingKnowsYearsLittlesLastsReadingBitsSweetLittle BitVictimScarySillyVampireLast YearCrushedVelvetSweet LoveReading Poetry Author:Josh Hartnett
“If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie.” IfsFeelsBelieveHas BeensMadeWarEndsStoriesSeemsLyingBitsMoralTerribleWasteVictimWar StoriesRectitude Book:The Things They Carried Source: The Things They Carried
“The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.” PeopleRealSeemsFacesEasyBitsInterestMemoriesVictimPsychologistDemonstratingVested InterestsSpiteful Author:Richard Dawkins
“When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel that he probably knows what he is talking about. I just wish he hadn't told me.” KnowsFeelsWishBitsTalkingCenturyVictimNoses18th Century Author:James Fenton
“I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It's like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn't great for a happy life.” FeelsChildrenFightingBitsMiddleVictimSwimHappy LifeMentalityExcludedVictim MentalityMiddle Child Author:Shirley Manson
“London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.” PeopleLittlesI CanBitsHavensLittle BitVictimScaredLondonCrueltyOutsidersLegislation Author:Emma Thompson
“I might be a touch of a sadist and a little bit jejune... but at least I'm not a victim, not any longer. I hope. I hope, therefore I am.” LittlesMightBitsLittle BitVictim Book:Damned Source: Damned
“Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our darkest fears, whatever they may be. It takes us into the minds of the victims, explores the threats, disseminates fear, studies how it changes us. It pulls back the curtain on the ugly underbelly of society, tears away the masks the monsters wear out in the world, shows us the potential truth of the human condition. Horror is truth, unflinching and honest. Not everybody wants to see that, but good horror ensures that it's there to be seen.” ThinkingWorldWantMindHumansMayShowsBitsStudyConditionsHonestTearsHorrorVictimThreatUglyMonstersGenreMaskHuman ConditionCurtainsMisconceptionBulliedSnobberyAntagonist Author:Kealan Patrick Burke