Happy Halloween Quotes

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  True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Life, Sex

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• There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Funny, Sarcastic, Revenge

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.48, Verso

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• There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

  Joseph Conrad

  Halloween, Moon, Light

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.230, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.

  Evan Peters

  Halloween, Air, Feelings

  "'American Horror Story' Season 2: Evan Peters Says It’s Really, Really Scary". Interview with Chris Jancelewicz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Bring forth the raisins and the nuts-
  Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts
  Along the moonlit way.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Halloween, Nuts, Way

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• Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things.

  Dee Snider

  Halloween, Scary, House

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• Never take candy from strangers.

  Rita Rudner

  Halloween, Candy Corn, Stranger

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• On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.

  Nick Gordon

  Happy, Dream, Halloween

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• Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

  Steve Almond

  Beautiful, Halloween, Night

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.32, Algonquin Books

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• As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.

  Nick Ferguson

  Football, Monday, Halloween

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• There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

  Joseph Conrad

  Halloween, Moon, Night

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.230, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

  Erma Bombeck

  Relationship, Fun, Halloween

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• Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"

  Dexter Kozen

  Halloween, Years, Voice

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• Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didn't know what to do. I'd knock on people's doors and go, "Trick or treat."

  Rita Rudner

  Halloween, Doors, People

  "Jokes over easy: 1,386 delicious jokes from the best comedians" by Judy Brown, Barnes & Noble, (p. 112), 2006.

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  Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Memorable, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 4

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• Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

  Mason Cooley

  Inspirational, Halloween, Autumn

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• Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
  All are on their rounds tonight;
  In the wan moon's silver ray,
  Thrives their helter-skelter play.

  Joel Benton

  Halloween, Moon, Play

  Joel Benton, “Halloween”

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• 'Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight.

  Arthur Cleveland Coxe

  Halloween, Night, Delight

  Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1842). “Halloween: A Romaunt”, p.13

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• Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

  Stephen King

  Halloween, Keys, Awful

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.315, Anchor

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• I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.

  Robert Breault

  Halloween, Real, Kids

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• If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

  Douglas Coupland

  Courage, Halloween, Years

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
  And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

  John Milton

  Halloween, Men, Names

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is Prefixed Newton's Life of Milton”, p.40

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• Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.

  Nick Gordon

  Sweet, Halloween, Innocence

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• As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light.

  Nick Gordon

  Halloween, Night, Light

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  The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fear, Halloween, Scary

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.11, Ageless Reads

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