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grotesque
«I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.»
«I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers..»
Author: Jamie Lee Curtis
(Actress)
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caricature, caricatured, caricatures, faced, grotesque, grotesques, hatchet, knocker, knockers
«Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, infamous, sullying, and grotesque is contained for me in this single word: God»
«To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!»
Author: Andre Breton
(Critic, Editor, Founder, Poet)
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doddering, eyed, grotesque, grotesques, outcome, paltry, polluted, pollutes, polluting, respect to, squint-eyed, squint, squinting, squints, stake, summoned, to the full, vile, wager, wagered
«All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.»
Author: Karl von Clausewitz
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Action
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fog, grotesque, grotesques, moonlight, so to speak, tends, tends to, twilight
«Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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caricatured, caricatures, cousins, grotesque, grotesques, relatives
«There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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earthly, earthly life, eternities, forlorn, grotesque, grotesques, homeless, no Hell, vagrant, vagrants, wandering
«Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly -- a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
came, commit, cost, costing, created, creditable, effected, effecting, effects, folly, grotesque, grotesques, human race, in place, lark, larks, least, must have, observe, race, regret, reputation, The Larks, to that effect
«People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
breeds, fall into, gape, gaped, gapes, gaping, garish, grotesque, grotesques, stupor