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“We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book, The Naked Communist: The communist 'has convinced himself that nothing is evil which answers the call of expediency.' This is a most damnable doctrine. People who truly accept such a philosophy have neither conscience nor honor. Force, trickery, lies, broken promises are wholly justified.”

Source: Title of liberty

“STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark reflections. It's one of the better single-author collections I've had the pleasure to read in recent years, and as such, gets my highest recommendation. It's also a fine testament to a talent I suspect we are going to be hearing a lot more from, and soon.”

“Elizabeth Turnage is a woman of grit and grace who lives into the stories of those who join her in this odd journey of seeking God. She honors the complexity of life without ever losing sight of the simple glory of the cross. Her grasp of the mundane and miraculous and their interplay gives a depth and honesty to her story that tugs at the heart and gives us hope our story can matter. Her book will be a clarion call to bring our broken, holy, troubled, and glorious life to the author of all stories: Jesus.”

“The good news is that the comics field is small enough and informal enough that once you have made a comic, you have achieved your dreams: you have broken into the comics industry. The problem with breaking in, though, is that staying in is harder.”

Made Book Enough Problem Dream Fields Broken Industry News Harder Comic Your Dreams Staying Comic Book Good News Dreams You Have

Author:Greg Pak

“The Broken Destiny series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.”

Years Book Destiny Broken Series Trilogies

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.”

People Book Reading Media Stupid Television Broken Becoming Shame Watching Television

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters are unwritten, the house is a shambles, and I sit here as happy as Mrs. Jellaby, though I am in 1836, not Africa. It won't go on like this, I shall fall over some obstacle, and wake out of my dreams with a black eye and broken shins: but while it does last, I daren't interrupt it. I haven't had such a spell of writing for nearly three years.”

Writing Years Doe Book Dream Eye Lasts Fall Three House Black Havens Hair Broken Goes On Ten Letters Obstacles Spells Three Years Devoted New Books Unwritten Black Eyes Shambles

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual, Venus,--whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons,--breathes, the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever.”

Giving Children Book Faces Spiritual Forever Magic Talent Broken Genius Shadow Mirrors Shining Breathe Features Over It Imperfect Countenance Venus Spenser

Author:Robert Aris Willmott

“Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.”

Book Century Broken Volume 18th Century

Author:Matthew Tobin Anderson

“My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.”

Thinking Book Home Rooms Half Broken Personality Splits Fabric Pillow Ceilings Other Half Vintage Antiques Neon Shutters Bali Split Personality Jugs Turquoise Ceramics Aztec

Author:Poppy Delevingne

“Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.”

Stills Book House Sports Space Broken Scene Spring London Pleasant Broads Solitary Here And There Pastime Early Spring

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .”

Source: Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic

“New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova.”

Book New York Broken Judgment Newspapers Collections Establishment Hacks Broken Down

Author:James Purdy

“Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.”

Book Lasts Reading Broken Balance Gay Bones Sparks Last Time Fixing Plugs Being Gay Broken Bone

Author:William J. Clinton

“To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came to admire Joyce even more because he never ceased working, those words and the transubstantiation of words obsessed him. He was a broken man at the end of his life, unaware that Ulysses would be the number one book of the twentieth century and, for that matter, the twenty-first.”

Men Firsts Book Ends Matter Would Be Numbers Century Broken Letters Twenties Privilege Enormous Admire Obsessed Twentieth Century Joyce Ulysses Broken Man Transubstantiation

Author:Edna O'Brien

“The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book was that I loved the poetry of broken English. Broken English and vernacular. It just floored me that you can actually capture the way people really talked. And I also really connected to the social class element.”

People Way Book Language Social Deals Class Color Broken Elements Incredibles Connected Capture Purple Social Class Vernacular Broken English

Author:Matt de la Pena

“The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.”

World Way Humans Heart Mean Book Facts Journey This World Broken Okay Human Life Miraculous Way To Live Edward Tulane Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again. It puts my mechanism back.”

Ifs Writing I Can Book Feelings Next Morning Broken Picks Mechanism Ivy Compton

Author:Hilary Mantel

“There are certain people in my life who didn't care to be in my book. And so I cut them out. And I had broken up with somebody. And I was, you know, really upset and depressed. And so that was, you know, reasons to keep going.”

People Book Reason Care Cutting Broken Upset Keep Going

Author:David Sedaris

“There was - there still is - a big shortage of good Chinese-English literary translators. So for two years in London, I was stuck waiting, not writing, with several Chinese books I couldn't get translated. That's when I decided to write in English, since I had been living here and had decided to reconstruct my life here. Even if I wrote in broken English, it was better than getting bored and weary and bitter on the long queue of authors waiting to be translated by a stranger.”

Writing Long Book Waiting Broken Stranger Stuck Bitter Chinese Bored Translators

Author:Xiaolu Guo

“The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.”

Trying Book Class Pieces Broken Forgiving Heal Breakup Remedy Workshops Broken Pieces After Breakup Breakups And Moving On

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.”

World Book Bigs Used Broken Ideals Cat Window Tables Sticks Bounds Heavy Flats Steady Thick Volume Finest Old Fashioned Leather Noisy Atlas

Author:Mark Twain

“Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and I make my choice in a mood of exalted luck, browsing among them like a cow in sweetest pasture. For life is continuous as long as they wait to be read--these inked paths opening into the future, page after page, every book its own receding horizon. And I hold them, one in each hand, a curious ballast weighing me here to earth.”

Ifs Long Book Hands Earth Life Is Choices Grows Waiting Path Broken Pages Luck Mood Opening Curious Horizon Cows Shelves Greedy Sweetest Exalted Pastures Weighing Browsing Ballast

Author:Linda Pastan

“I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.”

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“I carried Rudy softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder at comforting. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.”

Source: ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)”

Book Whole Seems Broken Begin Again

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no answers. When you’re on a battleground, you don’t have the luxury of time to dwell on the various historical factors and sociopolitical influences that caused the war. You just keep your head down and try to survive it, to shove the pages back in the book, close the covers and pretend that nothing’s broken, nothing’s wrong.”

Ifs Trying Book War Wanted Answers Influence Broken Pages Down And Historical Various Factors Luxury Explanation Battleground

Book:Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

“They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted to make way for her. The streets of Pudong were filled with hungry and terrified refugees, and through them, in simple peasant clothes streaked with the blood of herself and of others, broken shackles dangling from her wrists, followed by her generals and ministers, walked the barbarian Princess with her book and her sword.”

Way Book Wanted Simple Blood Streets Building Broken Clothes Stones Filled Hungry Ministers Princess Terrified Refugee Peasants Wrists Barbarians Shackles

Book:The Diamond Age

Source: The Diamond Age

“All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.”

Persons Book Jobs Lasts America Loses Ability Broken Balance Gay Bones Sparks Denied Last Time Orientation Plugs Being Gay Broken Bone

Author:William J. Clinton

“Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!”

Looks Littles Book Age Dies Turns Broken Findings Pages Letters Let Me Stranger Dust Lifts Pauses Binding Fading Steadfast

Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

“And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in the book thief herself - that as she knelt next to Hans Hubermann, she watched him stand and play the accordion. He stood and strapped it on in the alps of broken houses and played the accordion with kindness silver eyes and even a cigarette slouched on his lips. The bellows breathed and the tall man played for Liesel Meminger one last time as the sky was slowly taken away from her.”

Men Years I Can Book Play Eye Lasts Next House Vision Kindness Taken Saws Sky Broken Promise Lips Silver Tall Thieves Cigarette Last Time Accordions Alps Liesel Liesel Meminger

Author:Markus Zusak