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• Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough.

  Regina Brett

  Father, Book, Reality

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• It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

  Dick Wolf

  Movie, Running, Beach

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• Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.

  Andrew Weil

  Determination, Meditation, Relaxation

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• The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

  Eric Ries

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Successful

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• In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

  Terry Pratchett

  Art, Book, Character

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• The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

  Anita Loos

  Years, America, Fake

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it.

  Rachel Vincent

  Cute, Song, People

  FaceBook post by Rachel Vincent from Aug 03, 2011

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• Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

  Germaine Greer

  Two, Guilt, Triangles

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

  Stephen Fry

  Men, Thinking, Virginia

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• I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Long, Office

  "Nick Cave Sings the Blues". Interview with Brian Orloff, www.rollingstone.com. October 22, 2004.

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• January. It was all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray capsule. January was moments, and January was a year. January rained the moments down, and froze them in her memory: [...]Every human action seemed to yield a magic. January was a two-faced month, jangling like jester's bells, crackling like snow crust, pure as any beginning, grim as an old man, mysteriously familiar yet unknown, like a word one can almost but not quite define.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Memories, Men, Two

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• The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Witty, Caring, Law

  Rohinton Mistry (2008). “A Fine Balance”, p.563, Faber & Faber

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• My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.

  John Kennedy Toole

  One Day, Details, Life Is

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.253, LSU Press

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• You're not going,"he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yurs passes, you are not going to Idris." Clary felt as if he'd slapped her. She had thought he'd be pleased. She'd run all the way from the hospital to the Institute to tell him, and here he was standing in the entryway glaring at her with a look of grim death. "But you're going.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Ties, Insane

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.810, Simon and Schuster

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• Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fear, Bother, Thoughts Of Death

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• Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Love, Laughter, Greatness

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• Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.

  Richard Sibbes

  Death, Christian, Blessing

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• Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

  Howard Bloom

  Determination, Fun, Play

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• I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper
  cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me.
  I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget;
  we've only got so many tricks.
  no one lives forever.

  Danny Elfman

  Death, Clever, Cutting

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• Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, And night by night the monitory blast Wails in the key-hole, telling how it pass'd O'er empty fields, or upland solitudes, Or grim wide wave; and now the power is felt Of melancholy, tenderer in its moods Than any joy indulgent Summer dealt.

  William Allingham

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  William Allingham (1854). “Day and Night Songs”

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• It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.

  Bill Watterson

  Running, Generations, World

  "Something Under the Bed Is Drooling". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1988.

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• If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Depressing, Lonely, Writing

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)

  Markus Zusak

  Ideas, Halos, Way

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.75, RH Childrens Books

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• God expects you to have enough faith and determination and enough trust in Him to keep moving, keep living, keep rejoicing. In fact, He expects you not simply to face the future (that sounds pretty grim and stoic); He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities. God is anxiously waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and fulfill your dreams, just as He always has. But He can't if you don't pray, and He can't if you don't dream. In short, He can't if you don't believe.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Dream, Determination, Prayer

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• And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

  Octavia Butler

  Fiction, Way, Fantasy

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