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«You could not give me toys in those bleak days; So when my playmates proudly boasted theirs, You caught me to the shelter of your arms, And taught me how to laugh away my tears»
Author: DuBose Heyward
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bleak, bleakest, boasted, laugh away, playmate, playmates, proudly, shelter, toys
«If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.»
Author: Jacques Cousteau
(Explorer)
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Future
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bleak, bleakest, Faith in the Future, logical
«Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered.»
«Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.»
Author: Oliver Stone
(Motion-picture director, Producer, Screenwriter)
| About:
Cinema
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bleak, bleakest, cinema, grand, inch, independent, scheme, the Master
«So bleak is the picture... that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.»
Author: Philip Shabecoff
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«'Theocracy' has always been the synonym for a bleak and narrow, if not a fierce and blood-stained tyranny»
«Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! it is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life, Tom, are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these!»
Author: Charles Dickens
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«YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.But yesterday I should have thought me blest To stand high-pinnacled upon the peak Of middle life and look adown the bleak And unfamiliar foreslope to the West, Where solemn shadows all the land invest And stilly voices, half-remembered, speak Unfinished prophecy, and witch-fires freak The haunted twilight of the Dark of Rest. Yea, yesterday my soul was all aflame To stay the shadow on the dial's face At manhood's noonmark! Now, in God His name I chide aloud the little interspace Disparting me from Certitude, and fain Would know the dream and vision ne'er again. --Baruch ArnegriffIt is said that in his last illness the poet Arnegriff was attended at different times by seven doctors.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.»
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