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• With the Israel stories, it was for me the most surprising way the title would fit in. I kept thinking about, for a lot of my Israeli characters, what it was like to inherit such a complicated and symbiotic relationship to America and to feel how tangled that is, and it's nothing that they chose to do themselves.

  Molly Antopol

  Character, Thinking, Israel

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

  Pete Seeger

  Together, World, Slavery

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 3, 2008.

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• Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

  Alain de Botton

  Confused, Ambition, Envy

  Twitter post from Sep 15, 2013

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• I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and helpless and struggling, shut into the body of a dying buzzing fly; I could wish him dead until he died.I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth. if he was under the ground I could walk over him stamping my feet.

  Shirley Jackson

  Struggle, Thinking, Feet

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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• Forgetting your mission leads, inevitably, to getting tangled up in details-details that can take you completely off your path.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Details, Path, Forget You

  Laurie Beth Jones (1998). “The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life”, Hyperion

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• I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially... They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.

  Theodore Stevens

  Friday, Morning, Technology

  "Your Own Personal Internet", www.wired.com. June 30, 2006.

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• There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

  Wallis Simpson

  Marriage, Divorce, Broken

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• Along a stream that raced and ran
  Through tangled trees and over stones,
  That long had heard the pipes o' Pan
  And shared the joys that nature owns,
  I met a fellow fisherman,
  Who greeted me in cheerful tones.
  . . . .
  Foes think the bad in him they've guessed
  And prate about the wrong they scan;
  Friends that have seen him at his best
  Believe they know his every plan;
  I know him better than the rest,
  I know him as a fisherman.

  Edgar Guest

  Believe, Thinking, Fishing

  Edgar Albert Guest, “The Fisherman”

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• I grew up on a Christmas tree farm with all this space to run around, and the [freedom] to be a crazy kid with tangled hair.

  Taylor Swift

  Running, Crazy, Kids

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think that every educator, indeed every human being, is concerned with what is true and what is not; what experiences to cherish and which ones to avoid; and how best to relate to other human beings. We differ in how conscious we are of these questions; how reflective we are about our own stances; whether we are aware of how these human virtues are threatened by critiques (philosophical, cultural) and by technologies (chiefly the digital media). A good educator should help us all to navigate our way in this tangled web of virtues.

  Howard Gardner

  Philosophical, Technology, Thinking

  Source: howardgardner.com

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• I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.

  Matt Dillon

  Thinking, People, Too Much

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• In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life was just a tangled ball of chaos.

  Christopher Moore

  Justice, World, Facts

  Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.225, Hachette UK

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• You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody is the hero of their own story, and you have to keep that in mind. If you read a lot of history, as I do, even the worst and most monstrous people thought they were the good guys. We're all very tangled knots.

  George R. R. Martin

  Morning, Hero, Thinking

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• Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

  Rick Moody

  Thinking, Arms, Nine

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• It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.

  Hugh Howey

  Made, Knots, Crooked

  Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.479, Simon and Schuster

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• I get all tangled up in your ribbons.

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

  Ribbons

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• In a dream I cannot see tangled abstract phallacy random turmoil builds in me i'm a addicted to chaos -Megadeth, Addicted to Chaos

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Chaos, Abstract

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• Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.

  Laini Taylor

  Stars, Hair, Sky

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• The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush.

  Cathleen Schine

  Sweet, Morning, Wild Roses

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• I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Trying, Stories, Storyteller

  "Daniel Day-Lewis On Creating A Voice From The Past". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 9, 2012.

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• There are stories about winter ghosts found tangled like lice in their lovers' hair. Dead people have no hair themselves, which is how they can be recognized in winter. But in summer, the living and dead may pass each other on the street, and no one knows the difference.

  Kelly Link

  Summer, Winter, Hair

  Kelly Link, Shelley Jackson (2005). “Magic for Beginners”, p.60, Small Beer Press

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• Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

  John Carroll

  Men, Boredom, Desire

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.119, Taylor & Francis

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• 'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'

  William Blake

  Religious, Boys, Atheism

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.170, Pearson Education

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• Im drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. Im not saying I dont love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because Im always struggling with it myself.

  Sophie Okonedo

  Struggle, Doctors, Ideas

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• Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

  Rose Macaulay

  Safe, Speak, Neighbor

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