"For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty,"

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David Altmejd

#Grotesque Quotes

“Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”
“Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.”
“The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 16, 2014
“Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.”
“The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?”
“Wickedness may prosper for a while.”
“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.”

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