“I am Dracula…. I bid you welcome.”
Dracula, welcoming Harker to his castle
Dracula (1931)
He laughed heartily, as at a private joke. “Yes, I most certainly hope you do. After all, some of you may stay forever. It is a nice place, actually, one of those infinitely rare situations where one is rewarded commensurately to one’s efforts. Surely that is Heaven by any man’s definition?”
Source: Dream Park (1981), Chapter 19, “Neck Riddles” (p. 258)
“I am Dracula…. I bid you welcome.”
Dracula, welcoming Harker to his castle
Dracula (1931)
“I hope you enjoyed your visit. You never know. You may want to join forever.”
Source: The Coffin Club
thou wantest nothing- more than, what's in thy possession, or in thy power to possess:- I would neither give thee Money, nor Territory, Women, nor Horses, nor Camels, nor the height of Asiatic pride, Elephants;- I would give thee Books
(from vol 2, letter 60: 5 Jan 1780, to Mr J. W___e [still in India] ).
“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
Hope You Never
Lyrics, Songs and Music from "She's the One" (1996)
“Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?”
Tears in Heaven (from the album Unplugged - 1992)
Source: 1917 - 1929, Letter to Ettie Stettheimer' (August 1929), p. 227
Reported by Paul Scott in the Lewiston Daily Sun (27 September 1972) again as remarks at Duke University; http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FXwgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7mcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1010,3814989 reported elsewhere as a remark made at Michigan State University (22 November 1970) and cited to the Detroit Free Press but without a date, page or headline.
Rick Perlstein, in a 2005 London Review of Books article and in his 2008 book Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Simon and Schuster, p517 http://books.google.com/books?id=dM_enWzoghoC&pg=PA517#v=onepage&q&f=false), accused Helms of inventing the quote: "They tapped their network of friendly media propagandists, like the future Senator Jesse Helms, then a TV editorialist, who supplied an invented quotation that still circulates as part of the Fonda cult’s liturgy." http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n22/rick-perlstein/operation-barbarella The COINTELPRO Papers (2002) documents a separate attempt to plant false quotes from Fonda in the press.
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