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• I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, People, Crafts

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.79, Macmillan

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• ...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.

  Salman Rushdie

  Memories, Imperfection, Shadow

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.642, Random House

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• But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?

  Sylvia Plath

  College, Europe, Bells

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.124, Hamilton Books

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• The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

  Aldous Huxley

  Ideas, Mind, Important

  Quoted as the opening passage of "BOOK ONE: The Functions of Language" in "Language in Thought and Action" by S. I. Hayakawa, (p. 3), 1949.

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• The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads us to accept many facets of our own oppression as women.

  Audre Lorde

  Loyal, May, Oppression

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• In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.

  Abraham Maslow

  Mean, Rejection, Wish

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• I had to learn early on that where conservatives are concerned, the truth about them is the last thing anybody wants to report. It's the lies and distortions, the mischaracterizations, the character assassinations, that people want to report.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Character, People

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• The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may have a greater intellectual thrust than the truth; it may better serve the needs of the spirit, which vary. The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

  Susan Sontag

  Lying, Opposites, Ideas

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.

  Tennessee Williams

  Vanity, Glasses, Competition

  Tennessee Williams (2007). “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.

  David Keirsey

  May, Transformation, Produce

  David Keirsey (1998). “Please Understand Me 2”, Prometheus Nemesis Book Company

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• We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.

  Amy Ray

  Being Free, Causes, Innocent

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• The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Strength, Real, Agony

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.40

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• Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

  Garth Stein

  Real, Believe, Mirrors

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• So after a long time of utilizing the American propaganda machine, along with official statements of lies, distortion and falsehood, the focus was basically turned on inciting the American public against Iraq and pushing them to accept the American administration's schemes of aggression as a fait accompli, as if it were the solution or the necessary rescue that would allow American citizens to live in security and stability, after what they had gone through in the September 11 attacks.

  Naji Sabri

  Lying, Iraq, Long

  "Saddam's letter to U.N. says U.S. wants oil". www.cnn.com. September 20, 2002.

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• Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.

  Richard Dawkins

  Adults, Evolution, Program

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.314, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

  Eve Ensler

  Lying, Thinking, Denial

  "Interview with Eve Ensler: In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

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• When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.

  Kirk Hammett

  Temptation, Starting Out, Gains

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• I have tried every amp, distortion box, gadget etc. that has ever been made since 1967 to present and nothing has sounded like the Tonebone. It has become an incredible asset to my sound and I recommend this to anyone who is looking for that NATURAL warm sound with sustain for days and days! Buy this now!

  Steve Lukather

  Etc, Sound, Gadgets

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• The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

  Rob Bell

  Atheist, Ideas, Missing

  Rob Bell (2010). “Sex God”, p.80, Harper Collins

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• I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.

  Jane Siberry

  Creativity, Cutting, Thinking

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• Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Religious, Men, Aberration

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.282, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.

  John Sununu

  Jobs, Playing Games, Space

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• The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.

  Joe Perry

  Break Through, Trying, Sound

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• President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.

  Paul Ryan

  Running, Anger, Frustration

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". Interview with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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