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Letter "G" » grim
«Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.»
Author: Federico Fellini
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Film Director)
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About:
Death
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Keywords:
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grim,
grim reaper,
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his law,
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scythe,
The Grim Reaper
«Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.»
«Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear.»
Author: Philip Howard
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Keywords:
appointed,
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crow,
cuddly,
grim,
Hughes,
John Betjeman,
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Old Crow,
Poet Laureate,
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Sir John,
Ted,
teddy,
teddy bear,
Ted Hughes
«but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.»
«The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.»
«Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason /you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
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Editor,
Humanist,
Priest)
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Keywords:
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The Passions,
twenty-four
«The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.»
«In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, / Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; / Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, / That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.»
«It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things»
«I am sworn brother, sweet,To grim Necessity, and he and IWill keep a league till death.»