Twisted Quotes

• We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Kind, Drowning, All Kinds

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• It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free to cross back and forth between silence and word. Desire may also find itself so amputated by tradition and community that it wanders in a void with nothing to orient it, to shape or discipline it. Desire must find ways to navigate its bitter and sweet paradox: it moves toward but also always through and beyond every object.

  Wendy Farley

  Sweet, Moving, Wings

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• The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

  Thomas Merton

  Relationship, Spiritual, Inspirational Love

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• Reality itself is too twisted.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Reality

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

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• Americans are fascinated by our sexuality and frightened by it. And during the Reagan and Bush era you got an entire decade of anti-sex government. Sex is not the enemy. It is the beginning of civilization, family and tribe. Sex can be twisted and exploited, but in its most essential form, it's the best part of who we are. And it frightens us.

  Hugh Hefner

  Enemy, Sexuality

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• Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

  Graham Greene

  Trust, Cities, Insecurity

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.

  Abbey Lee Kershaw

  Strong, People, Interesting

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• What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and how spectacularly we contort ourselves before our own eyes, and the eyes of others...And all for what? To hide what? To make people believe what?

  Roberto Bolano

  Believe, Eye, Simple

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• Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own? Why is anyone and everyone right - so long as it's not yourself? Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic - and only of addition at that? Why is everything twisted out of all sense to fit everything else? There must be some reason. I don't know. I've never known it. I'd like to understand.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Men, Numbers

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.23, Penguin

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• If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Numbers, Squares

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• I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, Eggs, Eden

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.66, Penguin

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• I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.

  C. S. Lewis

  Attitude, Lying, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.138, HarperCollins UK

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• A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You've got to think beyond the whole.

  Max De Pree

  Friendship, Running, Thinking

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• Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.

  Harriet Monroe

  Figures, Vogue, Humans

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• If you twisted my arm today, I would probably vote for James Harden, he's single-handedly put that Houston Rockets team in the position they are in today. It would be tough.

  Mark Jackson

  Basketball, Team, Mvp

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• My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked - just weird hippie stuff, twisted R-rated humor.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Mom, Weed, Sex

  "Shia LeBeouf Admits to Watching His Parents Have Sex". www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2009.

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• Both of us will die today, gunned down or smashed up or exploded in some terrible moment of fire and twisted metal, and when they go to bury us we'll be so melted together and entwined they won't be able to separate the bodies; pieces of him will go with me, and pieces of me will go with him.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fire, Together, Pieces

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• Where, twisted round the barren oak,
  The summer vine in beauty clung,
  And summer winds the stillness broke,
  The crystal icicle is hung.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Winter, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.8

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• The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark; but you are supposed to go through them.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dark, Tunnels, Long

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.471, Hachette UK

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• No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.

  Nora Roberts

  Second Chance, Wry Smile, Long

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Heart of the Sea”, p.93, Penguin

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• No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.

  Glen Cook

  Destiny, Insanity, Shadow

  "The White Rose". Book by Glen Cook, 1985.

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• I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and thinkL Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Mother, Dream, Law

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• You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

  Jason Blum

  Falling In Love, Creative, Complicated

  "Producer Jason Blum on The Lazarus Effect, Paranormal Activity, and loving horror". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2015.

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• I was a lonely, frightened little fat kid who felt there was something deeply wrong with me because I didn't feel like I was the gender I'd been assigned. I felt there was something wrong with me, something sick and twisted inside me, something very very bad about me. And everything I read backed that up.

  Kate Bornstein

  Lonely, Kids, Sick

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.22, Routledge

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• Fairly early in life, I noticed my brain was weird. By that I mean that I noticed it had a way of looking at normal things from a slightly twisted angle - just twisted enough that it often made me chuckle.

  Phil Vischer

  Mean, Brain, Way

  "Me, Myself, and Bob: A True Story About Dreams, God, and Talking Vegetables". Book by Phil Vischer, 2007.

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