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• These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.

  Lynda Barry

  High Heels, Guy, Firsts

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• There is hardly anything more confusing than a really strong-willed woman and when you are surrounded by two of them in the midst of trying to save the world, it really adds to some drama!

  Austin Butler

  Strong, Drama, Two

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• The pain of being in a bad relationship is confusing. When it's over - it's over. No more confusion!

  Greg Behrendt

  Pain, Bad Relationship, Confusion

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• I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

  Aaron Belz

  Real, Writing, Fiction

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Usually it's lyric first, but sometimes it's melody. And I carry a hand-held recorder everywhere I go so I can just hum or whistle a melody if one hits me. Sometimes it's both simultaneously - lyric and melody at the same time - those are a little confusing to me, but sometimes it comes in that form. I just feel like I have my own little radio station and sometimes the static clears and something beams in from out there.

  Hal Ketchum

  Hands, Radio, Littles

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• In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that the inner world of our minds, its dreams, hopes, ambitions, represented the realm of fantasy, and the imagination. These roles, it seems to me, have been reversed. The most prudent and effective method of dealing with the world around us is to assume that it is a complete fiction - conversely, the one small node of reality left to us is inside of our own heads.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Ambition, Past

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• Information is Power. Think For Yourself. CAUTION: proper use of the brain is not endorsed by federal governments nor huge corporations involved in serious financial profit from a brainwashed and enslaved population. Mild discomfort may occur as confusing independent thought challenges popular views of the world.

  Timothy Leary

  Independent, Thinking, Information Is Power

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• I had a confusing relationship with my Barbies, but I love trolls. I tortured my Barbies.

  Anna Kendrick

  Barbie, Troll

  "‘Trolls’ – Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake Interview". Q&A, www.showbizjunkies.com. June 24, 2016.

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• It was frankly sort of confusing, the way everyone stared at our bodies exactly as they tried to erase the ideas of our bodies from our minds. We were supposed to get over ourselves but no one was supposed to get over us. The female body was our worst handicap and our best advantage - the surest means to success, the surest course to failure.

  Hilary Thayer Hamann

  Girl, Women, Mean

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• Her eyes met his, but she looked quickly away; entangling gazes with Will was confusing at best, dizzying at worst.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Mets, Worst

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.553, Simon and Schuster

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• Who are you?" Violet asked. It is confusing to fall asleep in the daytime and wake up at night. "what are you doing with Uncle Monty's reptiles?" Klaus asked. It is also confusing to realize you have been sleeping on stairs, rather than in a bed or sleeping bag. "Dixnik?" Sunny asked. It is always confusing why anyone would choose to wear a plaid shirt.

  Daniel Handler

  Uncles, Fall, Sleep

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• Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is. You realize that nature is ruthless and our existence is very fragile, temporary, and precious. But to go on with your daily affairs, you can't really think about that... which is probably why everyone takes the world for granted and why we act so thoughtlessly. It's very confusing. I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up. Hobbes: No doubt.

  Bill Watterson

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Thinking

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself? ...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.

  Janette Rallison

  Nice, Feel Better, Godmother

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Experts, Should, Repeats

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Understanding, Way, Using Words

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• I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Confused, People, Confusion

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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• You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

  Jim Butcher

  Evil, Know How, Whole

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.185, Penguin

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• Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Easy, Crosses

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• The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Men, Expression

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton (Part I: On the Creature Called Man, Chapter VII: The War of the Gods and Demons), 1925.

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• What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.

  Anne Carson

  Book, Adventure, Library

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• At that time in my life, no conclusion was a bad conclusion. Something ended, and you stopped wishing and worrying. You could consider your mistakes, and you might be embarrassed by them, but the box was sealed, the door was shut, you were no longer immersed in the confusing middle.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Mistake, Doors, Worry

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Law, Justice, Way

  "The Windup Girl". Book by Paolo Bacigalupi, September 1, 2009.

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• Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.

  Rowan Williams

  Mistake, Cutting, Thinking

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• Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Special, Causes, Common

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• Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.

  Anton Chekhov

  Writing, Artist, Two

  "Comfort reading: Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov" by Chris Power, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2003.

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