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• Have you ever stood where a stream spills into a river? The two become one. They laugh over the stones together, twist through the sharp canyons together, plunge down the waterfalls together. It is the same when a man and woman love one another. It is not always a pleasant thing, but when it happens, a man has little to say about it. Women, like streams, can be smooth one minute and make a man feel like he’s swimming through white water the next.

  Catherine Anderson

  Swimming, Men, Two

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• I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink into flesh. I yank my head back in confusion to find myself looking into Peeta’s eyes, only now they hold my gaze. Blood runs from the teeth marks on the hand he clamped over my nightlock. “Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says.

  Suzanne Collins

  Running, Rip, Eye

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• According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.

  Melina Marchetta

  Writing, Character, Self

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I'm all she's got and if I don't make it this time . . ." You'll pass through the light. A ribbon of guilt twists my stomach. I'm all Kim and Chip have too. But the difference is, they'll be better off without me.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Light, Differences, Guilt

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• But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.

  Carson McCullers

  Hurt, Children, Heart

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

  George Orwell

  Heart, Years, Tears

  George Orwell, Duncan Macmillan, Robert Icke (2013). “1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)”, p.45, Oberon Books

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• And she was just leaving. (Xedrix) Not yet, I’m not. (Aimee) Yes, you are. Adios. There’s the door. Doorknob twists to the left. The hinges open in. You should use them. Keep them working. Keep you breathing. (Xedrix)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Doors, Breathing, Leaving

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.264, Macmillan

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• I'm not sure how far Derrida's later 'theological' interests are really rooted in post-structuralism or whether they don't rather reflect a kind of Kantian-Marxist trajectory - with a French twist on the centrality of liberty, equality and fraternity (cf. Politics of Friendship). Not to mention the role of Levinas and, behind Levinas, Judaism's twinning of eschatology and the call for justice.

  George Pattison

  Cfs, Justice, Liberty

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.

  Philip K. Dick

  Ideas, Odd Things, World

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Time Out of Joint”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The movie is so fun. I've done period pieces before but nothing with this twist. And the movie is just full of such wonderful people, such young actors - people like Matt Smith that I've been friends with for a while.

  Douglas Booth

  Fun, People, Actors

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which seemed without bounds, I find the same desire again: to drive existence out of me, to rid the passing moments of their fat, to twist them, dry them, purify myself, harden myself, to give back at last the sharp, precise sound of a saxophone note. That could even make an apologue: there was a poor man who got in the wrong world.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Giving, Desire

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• Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm. Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches.

  Franny Billingsley

  Father, Silence, Sound

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.15, Penguin

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• I'm a girl, so every day I have a different opinion about or a different feeling about something that inspires me, but I think the thing that's driven me is I'll take a look at successful people and just try and see what their path was and follow that with my own twist, obviously. I guess I'm inspired by other people who are successful.

  April Rose

  Girl, Successful, Thinking

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• Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids.

  Malorie Blackman

  Python, Noughts And Crosses, Tables

  Malorie Blackman (2009). “Naughts & Crosses”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the financial heart of London, and a young girl got out and paid the driver. She was a person of sixteen or so--alone, and uncommonly pretty. She was slender and pale, and dressed in mourning, with a black bonnet under which she tucked back a straying twist of blond hair that the wind had teased loose. She had unusually dark brown eyes for one so fair. Her name was Sally Lockhart; and within fifteen minutes, she was going to kill a man.

  Philip Pullman

  Girl, Eye, Heart

  Philip Pullman (2017). “The Ruby in the Smoke: A Sally Lockhart Mystery”, p.7, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

  Anais Nin

  Joy, Abnormal, Taste

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• It’s the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be no depth, no substance.

  A.M. Jenkins

  Unique, Substance, Depth

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• What I really like to do is just do the twist!

  Van Morrison

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.

  Holly Black

  Memories, Giving, People

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• When it comes to dating, Im straightforward and traditional with a twist.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Dating, Straightforward, Traditional

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• Twist my Body like the Exorcist.

  Foxy Brown

  Body, Exorcist

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• We have all the technology to record things in the streets. Now the historians cannot twist it or change it, because we have cellular phones or video cameras, and we are filming in the streets what's going on. We have the voices of everybody recorded. There's too much recording and I think that's wonderful.

  Isabel Allende

  Technology, Thinking, Phones

  "Author Isabel Allende". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2010.

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• I'm always surprised to see the way "friends" will twist things or trash people behind their backs.

  Ariana Madix

  People, Way, Trash

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I'm said to have been involved even if I've had nothing to do with it. That's why I always focus on what I know, which is playing football, and try to be very careful with what I say because people always try and twist things.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Issues, People

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• If a psychiatrist would analyze [the lyrics], I'm sure they'd come up with something interesting. I really don't try to twist them. I don't want to slash things.

  Victoria Legrand

  Interesting, Trying, Want

  "Beach House". Interview With Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. March 17, 2008.

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