#distort

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

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All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit. ↗

— Robert J. Flaherty

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Live interviews are more difficult to distort. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

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We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change. ↗

— Chuck Jones

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President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration. ↗

— Paul Ryan

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For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

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