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“Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.”

Children Asks Individual Born Broken Offers Triumph Wallets

Book:Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd

Source: Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd

“In this state of total consumerism-which is to say a state of helpless dependence on things and services and ideas and motives that we have forgotten how to provide ourselves-all meaningful contact between ourselves and the earth is broken. We do not understand the earth in terms either of what it offers us or of what it requires of us, and I think it is the rule that people inevitably destroy what they do not understand.”

People Thinking Ideas States Earth Term Broken Offers Forgotten Meaningful Contact Motive Consumerism Helpless Dependence Overconsumption

Book:The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.”

Care America Sides Silence Millions Plans Broken Cost Offers Paid Financial Health Care Insecurity Hardship Both Sides Aisle Health Care System Lawmakers Health Care Costs

Author:Ron Wyden

“Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.”

Ifs Want Like You Broken Offers Paid Useless Dirty Useless Things

Author:Billie Letts

“Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they thought civilization could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it.”

Knows Way Hands Would Be Eye Dark Poor Sadness Serious Broken Higher Civilization Offers Mountain Ancient Insane Bridges Wheels Bombs Someday Delusion Cracks Stretching Dean Dense Hawks

Author:Jack Kerouac

“Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that’s the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you’d want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn’t be easy for you.”

People Ifs Men Want Would Be Easy Love Is Impossible Heard Love You Broken Mets Offers And Love Relation Staring Exception Gail

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“As a matter of fact, I was going to offer you something.” “What did you have in mind?” "A field trip. You interested in doing something dangerous, and possibly illegal?” “Does it involve underage girls, broken curfews and assorted fruit toppings?”

Mind Doe Matter Facts Girl Dangerous Fields Broken Offers Fruit Illegal Matter Of Fact Toppings Curfew Assorted Field Trip

Book:If I Die

Source: If I Die