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Famous quotes containing the words double and/or twisting:

“Well, I had gone and spoiled it again, made another mistake. A double one in fact. There were plenty of ways to get rid of that officer by some simple and plausible device, but no, I must pick out a picturesque one; it is the crying defect of my character.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“... is merry glory.
Is saltatory.
Yet he grips his right of twisting free.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)