“Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.”
Source: The Radleys
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British writer 1975Related quotes
On the title of her book Love (2003), in O, The Oprah Magazine (November 2003) http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/200311/omag_200311_toni_b.jhtml
Context: It is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerful human emotion — because hatred is involved in it, too. I thought if I removed the word from nearly every other place in the manuscript, it could become an earned word. If I could give the word, in my very modest way, its girth and its meaning and its terrible price and its clarity at the moment when that is all there is time for, then the title does work for me.
“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”
Source: The Last Slice of Rainbow and Other Stories
“How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.”
“Unuttered Words,” p. 59
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
“We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
Letter to John Adams (1774)
“So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.”
Source: All Together Dead
