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Letter "M" » misunderstood
«To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.»
«There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him»
Author: Antonin Artaud
| Keywords:
delirium, frightened, madman, misunderstood, prepared, shining, solution, strangulation
«To be great is to be misunderstood.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Understanding
| Keywords:
misunderstands, misunderstood
«To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is ''misunderstood'' or that he is ''different''; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.»
Author: Helen Rowland
| Keywords:
brilliant, complimentary, flatter, flat out, infinitely, misunderstands, misunderstood, necessarily, noble, none, perfectly, spending money, spends, telling, too much, works
«No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Events,
History,
War
| Keywords:
American history, misunderstood, Vietnam, Vietnam War
«So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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for all, misunderstood, once and for all, resign, resigning, resigns, so long, to that
«The whole thing about the women is, they lust to be misunderstood»
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