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• Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th century, when industrialization was just beginning: gray, brown and smoky. Color didn't exist. Today, instead, most everything is colored. The pipe running from the basement to the 12th floor is green because it carries steam. The one carrying electricity is red, and that with water is purple. Also, plastic colors have filled our homes, even revolutionized our taste. Pop art grew out of that and was possible because of this change in taste.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Running, Art, Home

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

  George Bancroft

  Respect, Hair, Envy

  George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.75

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• Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?

  Carol Shields

  Adventure, Men, Weight

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• It's great to have gray hair. Ask anyone who's bald.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Hair, Gray Hair, Asks

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.

  Pablo Picasso

  Dust, Color, Missing

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• You might be a redneck if your vehicle has a two-tone paint job - primer red and primer gray.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Jobs, Redneck, Two

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• There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me.

  Knut Hamsun

  Rocks, Looks, Wells

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• When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.

  Sydney Pollack

  Black And White, People, Acting

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• you wouldn't happen to have a pipe and a bit of tobacco about, would- i heard that! gandalf enjoyed a good pipe! why do you think he's called gandalf the gray? it wasn't for the color of his robes

  Margaret Weis

  Thinking, Color, Quit Smoking

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• As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.

  Laurie Foos

  Answers, Easy, Gray Area

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  Childhood, Green, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to be who I am now. I rock my gray hair because it is a blessing. I colored mine for many years, but I've gotten compliments from so many men and women about being brave enough to sport the gray. I even wear it on the cover of my record. I am comfortable in my skin and I want listeners to feel that as well.

  Regina Belle

  Sports, Blessing, Men

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I've long suspected that one of the reasons why human beings haven't yet figured out how to carry on a conversation with bottlenosed porpoises, African gray parrots, et al. in their own language is quite simply that we're terrified of what they might say to us - not least because it's entirely possible that they'd be right.

  John Michael Greer

  Long, Might, Als

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• If you get arrested, you`re supposed to know why you`re arrested. So, Freddie Gray should have known why he was arrested. His friends, his family, his community, they should have known what he was charged with, why he was arrested. And the police should have come out with that right away.

  Hillary Clinton

  Should Have, Community, Police

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It's funny how strangers can pass in front of you every day and all you see is a flat shadow, a vague outline, not noticing any of the details. They move in a gray crowd, always looking the same and acting the same, simple caricatures of who they really are, but once you get to know them, you notice the specific, tiniest things, you pay attention to the intricacies of their personalities, their habits and particular ways of walking and talking, the subtle changes in their appearance and dress.

  Gregory Galloway

  Moving, Simple, Talking

  Gregory Galloway (2015). “As Simple as Snow”, p.33, Penguin

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• I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.

  Jennifer McMahon

  Baby, Lying, Skeletons

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• The day was gray, the color of Europe.

  Markus Zusak

  Color, Europe

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.35, RH Childrens Books

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• Did she ever regret her choices? Were her decisions more clear-cut than mine - or are there always shades of gray whe it comes to matters of the heart?

  Emily Giffin

  Regret, Heart, Cutting

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.194, St. Martin's Press

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• When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.

  Victor Hugo

  Memories, Disappointment, Fire

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• Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent. I don't know what it needs or how to provide for it. Another dream years ago of a human child with eyes on stalks. It is very small, but can walk and talk "Don't you want me?" Again, I don't know how to care for the child. But I am dedicated to protecting and nurturing him at any cost! It is the function of the Guardian to protect hybrids and mutants in the vulnerable stage of infancy.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Children, Cat

  "The Cat Inside". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1986.

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• The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Cat, Animal

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• Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

  Isaiah

  Hair, Environmental, Age

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• Either you have a sense of humor about [being a former child star], or you're in rehab. There's not a lot of gray area.

  Wil Wheaton

  Stars, Children, Rehab

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• I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Memories, Past, Color

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.107, A&C Black

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• Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy, slippery and gray - but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise and float, if only for a few minutes. On those nights, she would stay a little longer and wait. Hello, stars.

  Markus Zusak

  Stars, Night, Doors

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