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Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.
Cedric Price
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Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
3.
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
Edward Albee
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The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.
Eckhart Tolle
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Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
Anthony de Mello
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composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.
Ned Rorem
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The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
Flannery O'Connor
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To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.
Willard Gaylin
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Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.
Ron Perlman
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The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.
Laozi
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Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us.
C. S. Lewis
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Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
Steve Martin