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#tangle

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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.


Jane Addams


#apply #become #changed #conditions #entangled

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.


Karen Allen


#born #doing #done #go #hard

I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.


Judy Davis


#because #becomes #brushed #curly #first

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.


Eudora Welty


#connect #developed #fiction #find #follow

I only know what it is that's wrong with him; not why it is." And what is it?" asked Lucy fearfully, expecting some harrowing tale. The old trouble; things won't fit." What things?" The things of the universe. It's quite true. They don't." Oh Mr. Emerson, whatever do you mean?" In his ordinary voice, so that she scarcely realized he was quoting poetry, he said: "'From far, from eve and morning, And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: here am I." George and I both know this, but why does it distress him? We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all of life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us rather love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world of sorrow.


E.M. Forster


#knot #life #rejoice #tangle #life

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.


James A. Michener


#human #human emotions #i #i love #love

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.


Michael Scheuer


#iraq #islamic #significant #tangled #very

Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.


Glenda Millard


#drove #hell #holy #night #nightmares

Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.


Gerry Spence


#because #bureau #bureaus #deeply #embedded

But this kiss? This is one I won’t forget any time soon. She tastes…Jesus, I’ve never done drugs, but I imagine this is what that first snort of cocaine feels like, that first shot of heroine. Goddamn addictive.


Emma Chase


#tangled #imagination






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