“ Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again. ”
- Bret Harte- Copy
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“ The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it — an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view. ”
- Peter Conrad- Copy
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“ Words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted. ”
- Jeanette Winterson- Copy
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“ Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it. ”
- Zig Ziglar- Copy
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“ Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place. ”
- Samuel Beckett- Copy
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“ I know that Deformed. - Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand. ”
- Leonardo DiCaprio- Copy
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“ In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ It did not occur to me that I might be a writer until I flunked out of my first year as a chemistry major, and found work as an apprentice writer of Volkswagen ads. ”
- Peter Carey- Copy
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“ I would go into the kitchen for coffee and on the way back to the page, curled in its roller, I would light one up and feel its dry rush mix with the dark taste of coffee. ”
- William Collins- Copy
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“ For I respectfully declineTo dignify the Serpentine,And make hors-d'oeuvres for fishes. ”
- Austin Dobson- Copy
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“ When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. ”
- Edward Abbey- Copy
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“ From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut. ”
- Benjamin J. Montalbano- Copy
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“ The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. ”
- Toni Morrison- Copy
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“ I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works. ”
- Sylvester Stallone- Copy
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“ It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked. ”
- Jill Peterson- Copy
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“ Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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