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• The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Past, Car, Waiting

  Allen Ginsberg (2010). “Collected Poems 1947-1997”, p.45, Harper Collins

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• Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

  Bob Dylan

  Beach, Memories, Crazy

  "Mr. Tambourine Man" (song) (1964)

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• She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.

  Aleister Crowley

  Opportunity, Men, Fire

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• A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Rain, Clouds, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.104, New Directions Publishing

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• Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Love, Letting Go, Distance

  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.23, Penguin

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• I put my fingers around the unmarked ring of the spyglass and twisted. The scene became clear. Oh no! A hairy brown spider clung to a vine! I couldn't go there! I'd go to the desert to find a dragon. I began to reset the spyglass, but then I stopped myself. A spider was worse than a dragon? No. My first monsters would be spiders, then.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Dragons, Monsters, Would Be

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• Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.

  Cornelia Funke

  Stupid, Hero, Knives

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.472, Chicken House

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• My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you,' but that's part of my charm.

  Pamela Anderson

  Reading, Thinking, Circles

  "Pamela Anderson: 'I'm not talking about my boobs - that's very 1999'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, "Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself.

  Neil Gaiman

  Self, Long, Glitter

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• there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.

  Spider Robinson

  Heart, Secret, Mind

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• What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on a cold morning, is hoot owls and the boy who makes you cry after school, is mama's long hair, is being afraid and twisted faces on the bedroom wall)...is going to be alright.

  Truman Capote

  Baby, Morning, Wall

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.6, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.

  Doris Lessing

  Two, People, Depth

  Doris Lessing (1973). “The Grass is Singing”, p.67, Heinemann

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• In the middle of the night I am awakened by a sound. I sit up abruptly in bed. I hear it again. It's music. Wait, it sounds like the ice cream man, in our house. Is this some kind of twisted nightmare? The flipping ice cream man, breaking in to chop us all up in our beds to the tune of 'Zippity Do Dah'?... My heart slows. I remember. There is no psycho ice cream man here. It is just our new musical soap dispenser.

  Deb Caletti

  Heart, Night, Men

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• Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki," he said. "Loki Lie-smith." "You're slow," said Loki, "but you get there in the end." And his lips twisted into a scarred smile and the embers danced in the shadows of his eyes.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jesus, Lying, Eye

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• The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dream, Men, Insanity

  "Twelve Types". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Apples, Sweetness, Knows

  Sherwood Anderson (1919). “Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-town Life”, p.19, Primedia E-launch LLC

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• I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.

  Ryan Murphy

  Nice, Dark, Thinking

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• I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Laughing, Violence, Would Be

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• I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I've done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it's nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.

  Bruno Mars

  Nice, Cutting, Men

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  Eddie Izzard

  Character, Psychosis, Play

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, tv.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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• It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Imagination, Levels

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• Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Hands, Left Hand, Splits

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• In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work.

  Junot Diaz

  Fiction, World, Today

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• Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

  Louis C. K.

  Perception

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. May 23, 2007.

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• I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

  John Cusack

  Film, Satire, Social

  "John Cusack for “Identity”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. April 14, 2003.

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