“ Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Dustin Hoffman- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Karl von Clausewitz- Copy
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“ 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
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“ Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrong. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster… ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesque, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for… ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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