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- Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature;… — Thomas Browne
- It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles. — Mark Gatiss
- There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces. — Thomas Browne
- There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one… — Oscar Wilde
- The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore
- In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man… — Sherwood Anderson
- The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All… — George Orwell
- He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really. — Simon Callow