The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
“There are those among the Folk so hideous that all living things shrink back in horror. And yet others have a grotesquerie… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
My tough and grotesque images were thrown on the roads and were stepped on by my critics, and I was talked about… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
I strenuously object to the very word "grotesque" which has become hackneyed to the point of nausea...I would prefer my music to… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
“There is something I have learned since being paralyzed, and that is that in the absence of sensory information, the imagination always… — Patrick McGrath Copy Share Image
The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and… — Colin Archibald Russell Copy Share Image
I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Well, possibly," I said, feeling my lips twitch again. "But maybe first you would tell us why you chose to manifest yourself… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
To me, the grotesque is like a sonic manifestation of reality. I don't know how you could look out onto our world… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
“If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“Why, observe the thing; turn it over; hold it up to the window; count the beads, long, oval, like some seaweed bulbs,… — Harriet Prescott Spofford Copy Share Image
“The splendor of the salmon canapés radiant with mayonnaise disappears, swallowed by the dark shopping bags of the customers. Certainly every one… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“But if it so happens ... a work ... under pain of otherwise becoming shameful or false, requires fantasy ... [and that]… — Michaelangelo Copy Share Image
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities. — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest sourcethat nature can offer. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset… — Rachel Ward Copy Share Image
The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your ass. You know? — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your a-. You know? — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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