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\"MonstersEddie discovered one of his childhood’s great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0It<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Stephen King<\/a><\/p>\n

It seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Call of Cthulhu<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0H. P. Lovecraft<\/a><\/p>\n

It was the incarnation of blind and insensate Greed. It was a monster devouring with a thousand mouths, trampling with a thousand hoofs; it was the Great Butcher–it was the spirit of Capitalism made flesh.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Jungle<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Upton Sinclair<\/a><\/p>\n

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Othello<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n

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