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• Love, I would later conclude, was all things to all people. Love was the breaking and healing of hearts. Love was misunderstood, love was faith, love was the promise of now that became hope for the future. Love was a rhythm, a resonance, a reverberation. Love was awkward and foolish, it was aggressive and simple and possessed of so many indefinable qualities it could never be conveyed in language. Love was being. The same gravity that relentlessly pulled at me was defied as I rose into something that became everything.

  R.J. Ellory

  Healing, Heart, Simple

  R. J. Ellory (2010). “A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel”, p.221, The Overlook Press

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• They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it.

  John Lennon

  Artist, Needs, Want

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• The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Use, Literature, Language

  "Aphorisms from the Athenaeum" by Friedrich Schlegel, #19, 1798.

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• Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim that ours is the era of individualism. Ours is merely a more poignant repetition of the phenomenon of all history: every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass. Today, as ever, the few are misunderstood, hounded, imprisoned, tortured, and killed.

  Emma Goldman

  Religious, Men, Silence

  Emma Goldman (1983). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Schocken

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• I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Idiot, Politically Correct

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

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• I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Laughter, Hate, Heart

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• I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Mistake, Thinking

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.198, Penguin

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• I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

  Claire Messud

  Strong, Long, Forever

  Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.20, Vintage

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• If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that did not do me a bit of good. For I've absorbed so many words and phrases— They drive me dizzy when I want to speak. I start explaining but each person gazes As if I spoke in Latin or in Greek.

  Ira Gershwin

  Latin, Guy, Greek

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• The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

  William Blake

  Thinking, Ezekiel, Voice

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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• The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dog, Night, Sound

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• Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Animal, World, Donkey

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —” “That’s enough, Phineas,” said Dumbledore.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hate, Self, Trying

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• Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking.

  Kate Bush

  Artist, Thought Provoking, Mind

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Thinking, Giving, Grammar

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think I'm misunderstood when I post these comments about films. So here is Kate Winslet sitting on - you know, laying on this plank. This ship is down. She let her boyfriend drown. They didn't even try a second time to get him to float on that with her. So I'm angry by that. I think...

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Trying, Sitting

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Cosmos Expert Neil deGrasse Tyson On Cosmetology". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. October 24, 2015.

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• She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him

  Baroness Orczy

  Matter, Facts, Assuming

  Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.143, Xist Publishing

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• I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Poet, Swine

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

  Sarah Hall

  Solitude, Conditions

  Sarah Hall (2009). “How to Paint a Dead Man”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune

  Naoko Takeuchi

  Neptune, World, Saving

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• I like women who are so real that they become as cowardly as certain men, as heroic as others and as sexual and dominating as men can be. And as you can imagine everything I do is [misunderstood].

  Danielle Arbid

  Real, Men, Heroic

  "‘Parisienne’ Director Danielle Arbid on Telling A Positive Story About a Foreigner Living in Paris". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 12, 2016.

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• And what happens a lot of times when - let's just speak specifically white and black - when white or black people feel misunderstood when it comes to talking about race, they immediately get defensive.

  Regina King

  White, Race, Talking

  "For Actress Regina King, A Childhood Gig Launched A Career In Hollywood". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 21, 2016.

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• Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Race, Ideas

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• He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood.

  Nicole Krauss

  Loneliness, Understanding, Solitude

  Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.156, Anchor

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• That is a list of the Territories that yielded to Ebon Askavi. They now stand within the shadow of the Keep. They are mine. Anyone who tries to settle in my Territory without my consent will be dealt with. Anyone who harms any of my people will be executed. There will be no excuses and no exceptions. I will say it simply so that the members of this Council and the intruders who thought to take land they had no right to claim can never say they misunderstood." Jaenelle's lips curled into a snarl. "STAY OUT OF MY TERRITORY!

  Anne Bishop

  Land, People, Shadow

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