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• How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?

  Janeane Garofalo

  Patriotism, Debate, Diplomacy

  "Actors promote virtual protest march", www.cnn.com. February 19, 2003.

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• Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Pain, Business, Doubt

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• Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted.

  Rick Riordan

  Fate

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• That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any of them.

  Veronica Roth

  Differences, Together, Love And Friendship

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• That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other's eyes in the moments before we fall asleep. When he finally drifts off, our fingers are twisted together in the space between the beds. I smile a little, and let myself go.

  Veronica Roth

  Fall, Eye, Night

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• There was something unbearably sexy about cars at night, Ronan thought. The way the fenders twisted the light and reflected the road, the way every driver became anonymous. The sight of them knocked his heartbeat askew.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sexy, Night, Light

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.188, Scholastic Inc.

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• In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.

  Abbi Glines

  Fall, Perfection, Made

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Simple Perfection: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

  Tupac Shakur

  Lying, Optimistic, Rapper

  Song: How Long Will They Mourn Me?

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• Our attitude determines how we evaluate our life's experiences. They determine how we evaluate ourselves. They also govern how we look at other people. Are we inclined to judge an eternal soul by the appearance of an earthly body? Do we see the beautiful soul of a brother or sister or do we only see that person's earthly tabernacle? Bodies can be distorted by handicap, twisted by injury or worn by age. But if we can learn to see the inner man and woman, we will be seeing as God sees and loving as He loves.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Beautiful, Brother, Attitude

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• You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.

  Iggy Pop

  Dark, Two, Tunes

  "Message from under the rock - musician Iggy Pop". Interview Magazine Interview, September 1999.

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• Bob Saget was known, in the comedy clubs in those days, as extremely funny but with dark humor. It was always an inside joke among comics, when he got Full House, it was, like, wow, hes playing this all-American dad kind of thing. That was not Bob Saget. His comedic style is definitely more twisted, and he has an edgier side than he showed in Full House.

  Bob Saget

  Dad, Dark, House

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• Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'

  Will Smith

  Morning, Thinking, Evil

  "Will Smith : My Work Ethic Will Make Me A Legend" by Siobhan Synnot, "Daily Record", December 22, 2007.

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• Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.

  Gail Z. Martin

  Adventure, Pages Turning, Danger

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• Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.

  Margaret Atwood

  Music, Squares, Romance

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards, nasty, twisted, deeply flawed human beings with serious psychological problems. Even them. When I get inside their skin and look out through their eyes, I have to feel a certain - if not sympathy, certainly empathy for them. I have to try to perceive the world as they do, and that creates a certain amount of affection.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Eye, Order

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• If the culprits are Muslim, they have twisted the teachings of Islam. Whoever performed, or is behind, the terrorist attacks in the United States of America does not represent Islam. God is not behind assassins.

  Muhammad Ali

  Powerful, Teaching, America

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.

  Thomas Boswell

  Golf, Broken, May

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• I'm just a crazy person. I mean, I really didn't have any trouble coming up with weird ways for people to die. I think I'm just very twisted!

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Crazy, Mean, Thinking

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• We are loping sequences of chemical conversions, acting ourselves converted. We are twists of genes acting ourselves twisted; we are wicks of burning neuroses acting ourselves wicked. And nothing to be done about it. And nothing to be done about it.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wicked, Acting, Twists

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• For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./ But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it/ home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,/ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared/ bid for my wife while I was still alive./ Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,/ contempt for what men say of you hereafter./ Your last hour has come. You die in blood.

  Homer

  Dog, Home, Men

  Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1961). “The Odyssey”, Anchor Books

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• Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

  Orson Scott Card

  Real, Boys, Mind

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.350, Macmillan

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• It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I can "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind, translated, filtered, allegorized, twisted, even falsified by it. We are . . . enveloped in a cloud of changing and endlessly shifting images.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Simple, Color

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1972). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.

  Neal Shusterman

  Reflection, Self, Torn Apart

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Full Tilt”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.

  Keith Ablow

  War, Sight, Addiction

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• The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Twisted ripples of the creature's torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become contained by its own howl. It had covered its ears against its own sound. The creature stood on a bridge and no one else was present; the creature screamed in isolation. Cut off by - or despite - its outcry.

  Philip K. Dick

  Cutting, Men, Echoes

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.130, Ballantine Books

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