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“Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.”

“Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.” But the tea masters understood that by repairing the broken bowl with the distinct beauty of radiant gold, they could create an alternative to “good as new” and instead employ a “better than new” aesthetic. They understood that a conspicuous, artful repair actually adds value. Because after mending, the bowl's unique fault lines were transformed into little rivers of gold that post repair were even more special because the bowl could then resemble nothing but itself.”

Way Trying Littles Values Lines Special Masters Broken Unique Understood Rivers Gold Add Faults Alternatives Tea Posts Aesthetic Transformed Bowls Radiant Mending Repairing Broken Things

Author:Teresita Fernandez

“You don't know how people are going to respond. But I would add to that, that getting your heart broken is not the worst thing and it's actually quite unavoidable. I think in some ways I had to break my father's heart and then face that in order to have a real relationship with him.”

People Thinking Knows Way Heart Real Faces Order Father Break Know How Worst Broken Add Worst Things Heart Broke Real Relationship

Author:Melissa Febos

“In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.”

Four Broken Taste Add Tricks Tea Pot Mexico Salt Crystals Kettles

Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts.”

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“The sight of a sullen teenager is common no matter where you go. Teenagers want things so powerfully and can never seen to get them, and to add insult to injury, people make light of your feelings because you are a teenager. They say time will mend a broken heart and they're often right. But not where my feelings for Hardy were concerned.”

People Want Heart Matter Feelings Light Common Broken Concerned Sight Add Teenager Insult Injury Hardy Sullen Insult To Injury Mending A Broken Heart

Book:Sugar Daddy: A Novel

Source: Sugar Daddy: A Novel

“They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.”

Ifs Color Broken Structure Add Nonsense Sensible Staff

Book:The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

Source: The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

“You’re like Marilyn Monroe,’ Ken tells me, which I take as a compliment and say a nervous “Thank You”. Interrupting, he adds, ‘You’re all velvet and Velcro. Men want you because you’re sexy and broken and when it gets too rough they can say “Hey! This toy is broken!” and toss you aside without feeling bad.”

Men Want Feelings Broken Add Sexy Nervous Hey Rough Compliment Toys Toss Velvet Feeling Bad Interrupting Velcro

Author:Emma Forrest