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• Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is.

  Demetri Martin

  Sports, Fun, Swimming

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

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• I had been a veteran of pretty challenging job searches, so I knew firsthand how frustrating, confusing, and demoralizing the job search process can be. Even after you get a job, many people join companies and discover in the first couple weeks that they aren't a good match with the personality and values of the company.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Jobs, Couple, People

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• Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is. You realize that nature is ruthless and our existence is very fragile, temporary, and precious. But to go on with your daily affairs, you can't really think about that... which is probably why everyone takes the world for granted and why we act so thoughtlessly. It's very confusing. I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up. Hobbes: No doubt.

  Bill Watterson

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Thinking

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Understanding, Way, Using Words

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• I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Confused, People, Confusion

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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• You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

  Jim Butcher

  Evil, Know How, Whole

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.185, Penguin

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• Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Easy, Crosses

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• I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

  Tony Kushner

  Wish, Would Be, Life Is

  Tony Kushner (1993). “Angels in America: a gay fantasia on national themes”

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• They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing. "Okay," said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat." He frowned. "That can be his Indian name," I suggested.

  James Patterson

  Angel, Names, White

  "Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports". Book by James Patterson, May 29, 2007.

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• It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moon, Snow, Shining

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, p.66, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

  Emily Dickinson

  Parent, Scary, World

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• Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Speech, Temples

  Charles Baudelaire, James N McGowan (2008). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.19, Oxford Paperbacks

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• She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Experts, Should, Repeats

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.

  Rachel Cohn

  Romance, Want, Knees

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• Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.

  Michael Crichton

  Creative, Trouble, Spiteful

  Michael Crichton (2012). “The Andromeda Strain”, p.194, Vintage

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• In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don’t. Don’t go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Moving, School

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.148, Scholastic Inc.

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• And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren't we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Mean, Want, Scream

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Light, Years, Different

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The Cat's Table”, p.274, Random House

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• I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.

  Norton Juster

  Dog, Scratches, Use

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.47, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Are they real fires? Or are people just reacting to something? Just because there’s an alarm going doesn’t mean it’s a fire. And I think that people are confusing the two. It’s only a fire when it offends the fans, and the fans turn on you. Tosh has fans, and they get the joke. If you’ve watched enough Tracy Morgan, you let the worst thing go by. When did Tracy Morgan become Walter Cronkite? You have to mean something to me to offend me. You can’t break up with me if we don’t date.

  Chris Rock

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The older I get, the more confusing it is to me. The more complicated it is. Harder. You’d think we’d be getting better at it. But there’s just more and more chaos. The pieces—they’re everywhere. And nobody knows what to do about it. I find myself grasping, Nick. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it’s right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible? I want to believe in that.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Believe, Mean

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• There are too many confusing things present. Things I know. Thoughts I have. Sarcasm. Things I think I ought to be doing and places I ought to be going. Always other places.

  Erlend Loe

  Sarcasm, Thinking, Ought

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.33, Canongate Books

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• Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.

  Anton Chekhov

  Writing, Artist, Two

  "Comfort reading: Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov" by Chris Power, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2003.

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• Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Special, Causes, Common

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• Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Law, Justice, Way

  "The Windup Girl". Book by Paolo Bacigalupi, September 1, 2009.

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