Twisted Quotes - Page 15

• Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Funny, Hilarious, Sweet

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.172, Hachette UK

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• The best secrets are the most twisted

  Sara Shepard

  Secret

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• He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.

  Leonard Cohen

  Heart, Men, Monsters

  "Beautiful Losers". Book by Leonard Cohen, 1966.

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• Every single word you have spoken is sharp, sarcastic and twisted. When I thought you were abnormal you suddenly turned out to be normal. When I thought you were normal you turned out to be abnormal.

  Jae Hee

  Sarcastic, Drama, Normal

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• Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality. Because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.

  Hugh Hefner

  Way, Revolution, Normal

  "A Visit with 'Playboy' Founder Hugh Hefner". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 6, 2003.

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• Children with harsh fathers accept much of what is thrown their way as normal because they don’t have a frame of reference for anything else, and this twisted template unfortunately becomes the basis for their picture of the heavenly Father.

  Robert Whitlow

  Children, Father, Way

  Robert Whitlow (2011). “Southern Legal Thriller 3-in-1 Bundle”, p.203, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue. Witness is borne and puzzles come together at the photographic moment which is very simple and complete. The mind-finger presses the release on the silly machine and it stops time and holds what its jaws can encompass and what the light will stain.

  Lee Friedlander

  Wall, Silly, Simple

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• I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection is very artful. But there's something I liked about the image of a skater going in this endless twisted circle that doesn't have any real endpoint. So the object is not to stop or arrive anywhere; it's just to make this thing as beautiful as they can.

  Elliott Smith

  Beautiful, Real, Thinking

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• Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.

  Walter Lippmann

  Mind, Fads, Superstitions

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.38, Harvard University Press

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• All over the world, girls are raised to be make themselves likeable, to twist themselves into shapes that suit other people. Please do not twist yourself into shapes to please. Don't do it. If someone likes that version of you, that version of you that is false and holds back, then they actually just like that twisted shape, and not you. And the world is such a gloriously multifaceted, diverse place that there are people in the world who will like you, the real you, as you are.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Girl, Real, People

  Speech at Wellesley College, time.com. 2015.

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• You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Happiness, Success, Hope

  "Still I Rise" l. 1 (1978)

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• And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.

  Hermann Hesse

  Home, Sky, Earth

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.

  Margaret Atwood

  Regret, Loss, Journey

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• I emphatically denounce Paul Ryan's use of my song 'We're Not Gonna Take It' as recorded by my band Twisted Sister. There is almost nothing on which I  agree with Paul Ryan, except perhaps the use of the P90X.

  Dee Snider

  Song, Band, Use

  "Dee Snider to Paul Ryan: Stop playing 'We're Not Gonna Take It'" by Randall Roberts, articles.latimes.com. August 22, 2012.

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• Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Evil, Environment

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• Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.

  Romain Gary

  Dark, Clouds, Epidemics

  Introduction to "The Plague" by Albert Camus, 1962 edition,

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• Most autumns, the water is low from the long dry summer, and you have to get out from time to time and wade, leading or dragging your boat through trickling shallows from one pool to the long channel-twisted pool below, hanging up occasionally on shuddering bars of quicksand, making six or eight miles in a day's lazy work, but if you go to the river at all, you tend not to mind. You are not in a hurry there; you learned long since not to be.

  John Graves

  Summer, Autumn, Rivers

  John Graves (1960). “Goodbye to a river: a narrative”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Because of our broken instincts we are in pain. We continue in pain because our instincts have been twisted by reason. So, what are we supposed to do? Should we abandon knowledge? Throw away reason? In any event, that wouldn't be possible. For better or worse, we ate the fruit of knowledge long, long ago.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Pain, Long Ago, Broken

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• There was a hole inside her, and it twisted.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Holes

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• That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.

  David Levithan

  Heart, Mind, Strange

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• I know, I know. But I can always kill him later. This way, at least we get to humiliate him first.” Finn eyed me. “Sometimes I think you’re even more devious, twisted, and vicious than I am.” I grinned. “You only wish you could be as ruthless as me.” “Absolutely.

  Jennifer Estep

  Thinking, Wish, Way

  Jennifer Estep (2013). “Deadly Sting”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• I think' she said, choosing her words with care, ; that any good impulse can be twisted into something evil.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Evil, Care

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1203, Simon and Schuster

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• In what twisted universe would a girl who's just been dumped still want to be friends with the boy who dumped her?

  Susane Colasanti

  Girl, Boys, Dumped Her

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.17, Penguin

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• Toby twisted around. "Boo." Emily screamed.

  Sara Shepard

  Toby, Emily

  Sara Shepard (2010). “Flawless: Number 2 in series”, p.58, Hachette UK

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• That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in doing so, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Errors, Suits, Problem

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