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Letter "D" » disappointing
«Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood /for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.»
Author: Graham Greene
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Keywords:
clock,
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contradictory,
defeated,
details,
disappointing,
faultless,
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Grown up,
heroes,
in the long run,
long run,
No Hero,
of our own,
promised,
rule book,
satisfy,
simplicities,
swordsman,
The Long Run,
The Rules
«It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.»
«Yes, it's a bit disappointing [losing the final of the World Cup against Australia]»
«Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.»
«It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.»
«You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.»
«SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
disappointing,
dissemble,
dissembled,
dissembling,
dissuade,
dissuaded,
dissuading,
figuratively,
Odysseus,
prodigies,
prodigy,
siren,
Sirens
«There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.»
«Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best»
«As for disappointing them, I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.»