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I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

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Seth Grahame-Smith
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: January 4
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Seth Jared Greenberg
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Abraham, he said. I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend. And I to see you dead.
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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.
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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.
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We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.
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I nearly broke out laughing when the wrteched soothsayer warned Caesar: Beware the Ides of April. I thought it a miracle (and a relief) that no one in the udience had snickered or yelled out a correction. How could such an error be made by an actor? Had my ears deceived me?
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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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Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.
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Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.' Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.
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put the car in d set the compass to n and get the fout of there
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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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There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.
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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.
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America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln, laughed Davis, pointing north. You're in Mississippi now.
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I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.
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However, it has long been said that my enemy's enemy is my friend.
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On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.
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Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.
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