Best Twist Wisdom
310 Twist quotes by 265 unique authors
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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…
— Malorie Blackman
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He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the…
— Colum McCann
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The way we think may be completely different, but you and I are an ancient, archetypal couple, the original man and woman. We are the…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view. Facts don't do what…
— David Byrne
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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,…
— Melina Marchetta
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Papa's in a bad way, Locke. I wanted to see you before you saw him - he has some...things he wishes to discuss with you.…
— Scott Lynch
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For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know…
— Stephen King
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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…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year…
— Faith Baldwin
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When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. A foolish jewelled bride.…
— Arundhati Roy
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For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out…
— Charles Dickens
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Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale…
— Lisa Ann Sandell
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Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my…
— Anthony Horowitz
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Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their…
— Anthony Horowitz
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of…
— Gore Vidal
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It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi takes off his…
— Melina Marchetta
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I understand perfectly. Darquesse isn't a separate entity. She isn't another person. She's you. If you make the wrong choices, if you stop loving the…
— Derek Landy
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Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we…
— Gregory David Roberts
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms…
— Veronica Roth
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It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.
— Melissa de la Cruz
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Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the…
— Tom Hiddleston
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You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.
— Anthony Marra
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Then you don't know. You can't know what it feels like to meet a person and suddenly know without a doubt that the whole purpose…
— Hilary Duff
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And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I…
— John Updike
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