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Grotesque Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident…
- Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it…
- I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.
- Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning…
More Grotesque Quotes
- There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a… — Mark Twain
- Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. — Mark Twain
- It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers… — Albert Einstein
- Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not,… — Flannery O'Connor
- perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. — Salman Rushdie
- Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making… — Karlheinz Deschner
- 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
- I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done… — Ernest Becker