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Mangled Quotes

All I need is a badly mangled, irate sentence stalking me Picture Quote #1

Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts Picture Quote #1

By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature Picture Quote #1

As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I’ve highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass Picture Quote #1

All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying bodies and portions of bodies once warm living and tender parts of Irish men and youths - all these horrors in Flanders or the Gallipoli Peninsula, are all items in the price Ireland pays for being part of the British Empire Picture Quote #1

I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours Picture Quote #1

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You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor Picture Quote #1

I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity Picture Quote #1

I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear? Picture Quote #1

I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men Picture Quote #1

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed Picture Quote #1

Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning Picture Quote #1

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It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair Picture Quote #1

English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman’s apparel is clearly asking to be mangled Picture Quote #1

I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can’t reuse or repair Picture Quote #1

I’m always the one who gets killed. And I want it to be really gory. Body parts all over the place. Mangled! Picture Quote #1

It amazed me how some people could touch an instrument and create something so beautiful, and when others tried, like me, it just sounded like mangled noise Picture Quote #1

I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk Picture Quote #1

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Negotiating with memories isn’t easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those destined to be mangled by language and come out pulverized? Picture Quote #1

And in his brain, which is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage, he hath strange places crammed with observation, the which he vents in mangled forms Picture Quote #1

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All I need is a badly mangled, irate sentence stalking me (Mangled Quotes) Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts (Mangled Quotes) By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature. (Mangled Quotes) As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I’ve highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass. (Mangled Quotes) All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying bodies and portions of bodies once warm living and tender parts of Irish men and youths - all these horrors in Flanders or the Gallipoli Peninsula, are all items in the price Ireland pays for being part of the British Empire. (Mangled Quotes) I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours (Mangled Quotes) You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor (Mangled Quotes) I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity (Mangled Quotes) I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear? (Mangled Quotes) I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men (Mangled Quotes) These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed (Mangled Quotes) Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning (Mangled Quotes) It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair (Mangled Quotes) English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman’s apparel is clearly asking to be mangled (Mangled Quotes) I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can’t reuse or repair (Mangled Quotes) I’m always the one who gets killed. And I want it to be really gory. Body parts all over the place. Mangled! (Mangled Quotes) It amazed me how some people could touch an instrument and create something so beautiful, and when others tried, like me, it just sounded like mangled noise (Mangled Quotes) I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk (Mangled Quotes) Negotiating with memories isn’t easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those destined to be mangled by language and come out pulverized? (Mangled Quotes) And in his brain, which is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage, he hath strange places crammed with observation, the which he vents in mangled forms (Mangled Quotes)