Kim Paffenroth quotes
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“Since zombies are not fully dead, they upset the essential balance of nature: no animals eat zombies, apparently, and zombies do not seem to decay, at least, not to the point of disintegration and reintegration back into the soil, so the food chain, or the circle of life, seems to end or be short-circuited by their existence. Zombies fulfill the worst potentialities of humans to create a hellish kingdom on earth of endless, sterile repetition and boredom.”
-- Kim PaffenrothSource : Kim Paffenroth (2006). “Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth”, p.13, Baylor University Press
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“Zombies are then a symbol of our own mad urges to destroy ourselves, and a terrifying portent that we might succeed.”
-- Kim PaffenrothSource : Kim Paffenroth (2006). “Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth”, p.3, Baylor University Press
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“The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too is similar to other monsters (werewolves and vampires) and also similar to the sub-genre of infection/plague films. In the case of zombies, however, this may carry a greater sense of dread and revulsion: vampires and werewolves can be seen as desirable, potent, intelligent, virile creatures whom one might like -- in some way at least -- to become; a mindless ghoul condemned to wander aimlessly across an empty, ruined earth seems much less attractive.”
-- Kim Paffenroth
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Source : "Selena Gomez On Dating: 'I’m Always Going To Be The Girl You Take Home To Your Parents'". Teen Vogue Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2013.
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“Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature”
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Source : "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists, Harper & Row, New York and Evanston, Illinois". Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.
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“In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.”
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