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“This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that things will go better, but difficulties exist and nothing is served by hiding them under a poetic veil or under a lyricism of the past. I am against slogans.”

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Book:Conversations with Chinua Achebe

Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe

“Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.”

People Littles Long Eye Age Born Sleep Cold Skins Circles Naked Old Age Noses Wet Shells Curves Old People Frogs Turtles Reptiles Tortoises Beaks Sagging Cold Eyes

Book:The Inland Island

Source: The Inland Island

“An audience is the most dangerous thing in the world, because they paid, and they're looking at you. And they paid! And there's a lot of them! And they cast a cold eye, because they paid. To be on the stage, you have to be very secure.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.”

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Book:Night

Source: Night

“Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by”

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Author:William Butler Yeats

“Somewhere in the ocean, a shark was missing its cold eyes because this man had them.”

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Book:The Lock Artist: A Novel

Source: The Lock Artist: A Novel

“My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” I exploded: “What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily: “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.”

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Book:Night

Source: Night

“Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and haven’t the sense to level a cold eye at just what is wrong with their lives. Most people will continue on, dissatisfied but never attempting to understand why, or how they might change things for the better, and they die with nothing in their hearts but dirt and old, thin blood - weak blood, diluted - and their memories aren’t worth a goddamned thing.”

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Author:Patrick deWitt

“With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the "quality of painting" (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go hungry away. The vulgar herd stroll through the rooms and pronounce the pictures "nice" or "splendid." Those who could speak have said nothing, those who could hear have heard nothing.”

Mind Said Soul Eye Speak Enjoy Rooms Quality Nice Heard Painting Cold Skills Regard Hungry Admire Indifferent Vulgar Spectators Splendid Herds Walkers Pasties Cold Eyes

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. Murder within the species on an individual or collective scale is a phenomenon unknown in the whole animal kingdom, except for man, and a few varieties of ants and rats.”

“On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!”

Life Eye Death Cutting Cold Casts Command Spots Horsemen Limestone Cold Eyes

Author:William Butler Yeats