Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do, — Tim Waterstone Copy Share Image
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Why is it only now that I can see how many ordinary things are actually grotesque?” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers. — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more. — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“humans were grotesque a lot of the time, but-just once in a while-there was something about them that was marvelous, too" ("Lost… — Sarah Porter Copy Share Image
What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth?… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Our fiction is not merely in flight from the physical data of the actual world…it is, bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction,… — Leslie Fielder Copy Share Image
Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die.… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even… — William Thomas Beckford Copy Share Image
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing. — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“He was grotesque, really. But joy radiated from his homespuns when you walked beside him. It welled out; it enveloped you.” — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder. — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
“I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
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