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• The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Discrepancies Between, Source, Gray Area

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• When night falls people become as lonely as snowflakes floating down from a gray city sky. Now and again we fall past a streetlamp and are visible, a brief moment apart, REAL-- we can be seen. We exist. Then we vanish into the gray darkness and the earth draws us to it.

  Erik Fosnes Hansen

  Lonely, Real, Fall

  Erik Fosnes Hansen (1996). “Psalm at Journey's End”, p.160, Macmillan

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• Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.

  Edwin Markham

  Ignorance, Fate, Soul

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• Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

  Ridley Scott

  Black And White, Gray Area, Black White

  "Sir Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2005.

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• I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.

  Jane Seymour

  Smile, Eye, Winning

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.

  Hugh Sidey

  Brave, Use, Way

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• Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

  William Styron

  Depression, Pain, Suffering

  William Clark Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

  Pete Townshend

  Black And White, Color, Cinema

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• Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Running, Writing, Boys

  Lectures on Literature "Good Readers and Good Writers" (1980)

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• We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the finer shades of despair are lost to us. We've ceased to be runners. We plod from structure to conveyance to employment and back again. We live within the boundaries that science has determined for us. The measuring stick is short and sweet. The full gamut of life is a brief, shadowy continuum that runs from gray to more gray. The rainbow is bleached. We hardly know how to doubt anymore. (“The Thing”)

  Richard Matheson

  Running, Sweet, Struggle

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• Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today.

  Dr. Seuss

  Moving, Watches, Today

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• What is a fleecy as a cloud, As majestic and shimmering as the breaking dawn, As gorgeous as the sun the sun is strong? Why, it's ME! Twilight, the Great Gray, Tiger of the sky --- Light of the Night, Most beautiful, An avian delight. I beam --- I gleam --- I'm a livin' flying dream. Watch me roll off this cloud and pop on back. This is flying. I ain't no hack.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Beautiful, Dream, Strong

  Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians”, p.190, Scholastic Inc.

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• I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

  Margaret Atwood

  Want, Complicated, Heathcliff

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Lady Oracle”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

  Lauren Oliver

  Ocean, Color, Waiting

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Two, Black, Hints

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels, 1969-1974”

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• For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.

  Veronica Roth

  Kissing, Clothes, Hands

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• The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray hair and a beard. He was tall and thin and looked vaguely familiar to Harry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Hair, Long

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• Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.

  Teri Hatcher

  Motivational, Way, Periods

  Teri Hatcher (2006). “Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

  Burl Ives

  Spring, Wind, Long

  Burl Ives (2017). “Wayfaring Stranger”, p.120, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

  John Steinbeck

  Confusion, Humanity, Passing

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.146, Penguin

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• Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we're simultaneously both cowardly and arrogant. We don't know the answers, so we assume they must not exist.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Believe, Arrogant, Answers

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

  Tom Selleck

  Blessing, Age, Doe

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind. It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.

  Al Ries

  Real, Gray Matter, Mind

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• Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

  James Altucher

  Art, Honesty, Compassion

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• I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

  W. G. Sebald

  Believe, Black And White, Life And Death

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