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• Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.

  Melody Carlson

  Girl, Jealous, Guy

  Melody Carlson (2012). “The Jerk Magnet”, p.134, Revell

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• I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or sad.

  Roger Milla

  Sports, Real, Joy

  Interview With Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2006.

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• The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Mind, Age, Stronger

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• "[My Beautiful] Dark [Twisted] Fantasy" and "Watch the Throne": neither was nominated for Album of the Year, and I made both of those in one year. I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person. But the thing is, I don't care about the Grammys; I just would like for the statistics to be more accurate.

  Kanye West

  Beautiful, Dark, Years

  "Kanye West's Grammy stats: he definitely does have more than anyone his age" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. June 12, 2013.

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• The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of pals out there. Type in 'Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire'and the computer will say, 'Specify type of goat.'

  Richard Jeni

  Sex, Fire, People

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• I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with. I hope the overall view isn't just that though, or I've failed in my writing. There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies.

  Martin McDonagh

  Art, Real, Drama

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How wonderful is Cold Mountain Climbers are all afraid The moon shines on clear water twinkle twinkle Wind rustles the tall grass Plum trees flower in the snow Bare twisted trees have clouds for foliage A touch of rain brings it all alive Unless you see clearly do not approach

  Hanshan

  Rain, Flower, Moon

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• Now I also want to say, without a doubt, there are some wonderful, wonderful, absolutely wonderful things about being a man. But at the same time, there's some stuff that's just straight up twisted, and we really need to begin to challenge, look at it and really get in the process of deconstructing, redefining, what we come to know as manhood.

  Tony Porter

  Men, Challenges, Doubt

  "A call to men". TED Talk, www.ted.com. December 2010.

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• Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

  Patti Smith

  Unanswered Questions, Path, Defeated

  Song: Pissing in a River, Album: Radio Ethiopia

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• The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Jobs, Character, Mind

  Interview with Carol Fitzgerald, Joe Hartlaub, and Wiley Saichek, www.bookreporter.com. November 21, 2003.

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• Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.

  Matsuo Basho

  Bridges, Rope, Vines

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• Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people have probably been seeing time as a straight line that continues on forever. And that's the concept they based their actions on. And until now they haven't found anything inconvenient or contradictory about it. So as an experiential model, it's probably correct.

  Haruki Murakami

  Years, People, Forever

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 23, 2016

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• Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead learn your mistakes and learn your lessons. Remain strong with your head held high.

  Angela Merkel

  Strong, Mistake, Women

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• An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Squares, Tree, Taoism

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “365 Tao: Daily Meditations”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• If someone takes something from me I’m going to grab it right back out of their cold, twisted sick hands and say it is mine! And I am going to punch you in the face and push you in the dirt because this is the teachers! These are our tools and you sick people need to deal with us and the children we teach.

  Michael Mulgrew

  Teacher, Children, Hands

  "Michael Mulgrew defends Common Core: ‘You sick people need to deal with us and the children that we teach’". www.nydailynews.com. Friday, August 8.

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• I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire. . . . When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.

  Alan Lee

  Heart, Rivers, Tree

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• The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue is much closer to contemporary idiom, especially when those cadences have been masterfully twisted to satirical ends.

  Geoffrey Dutton

  Book, Style, Cadence

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• But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Regret, Fate, Opportunity

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• I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

  Anthony Shadid

  Thinking, Childhood, Better Off

  "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.

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• As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a love disorder of one sort or another, and each has a story to tell - of love lost or denied, love twisted or betrayed, love perverted or shackled to violence. Broken attachments litter the office floors like pick-up sticks. People appear with frayed seams and spilling pockets.

  Diane Ackerman

  Lost Love, Attachment, People

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.136, Vintage

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• The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Strong, Law, Rope

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• Jefferson found in the religion phrases of the First Amendment no vague or fuzzy language to be bent or shaped or twisted as suited any Supreme Court Justice or White House incumbent. That amendment had built a wall, with the ecclesiastical estate on one side and the civil estate on the other.

  Edwin Gaustad

  Wall, White, Justice

  Edwin Scott Gaustad (1993). “Neither King Nor Prelate: Religion and the New Nation, 1776-1826”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

  Bruce Lee

  Reality, Views, Conditioning

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.19, Tuttle Publishing

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• Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.

  Elayne Boosler

  Sports, Blood, America

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• Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Lying, Gaps, Intention

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions”, p.283, Macmillan

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