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“Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.”

Way Artist Enemy Broken Ought Wholeness Ruined

Author:Ben Okri

“We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.”

Source: Speeches in Congress

“Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they had pushed away for serious reasons, they could have separated the party's fortunes from the president's. This would have left a painfully broken party, but they wouldn't be left with a ruined brand,- as they all say, speaking the language of marketing. And they speak that language because they are marketers, not thinkers. Not serious about policy. Not serious about ideas. And not serious about leadership, only followership.”

Ifs Years Ideas Hard Reason Left Speak Language President Party Leader Policy Serious Broken Built Fortune Marketing Brands Thinker Ruined Marketers Followership Pushed Away

Author:Peggy Noonan

“Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.”

Facts Light Black Lines Sky Broken Conscious Window Horse Drivers Tall Rays Pulling Ruined Castles Rays Of Light

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree.”

Soul Grows Tree Childhood Broken Return Promise Filled Genuine Thread Ruined Bud Springtime New Hope Threads Of Life

Book:Beneath the Wheel: A Novel

Source: Beneath the Wheel: A Novel

“He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.”

Source: Anna Karenina (English German bilingual Edition illustrated): Anna Karenina (Englisch Deutsch zweisprachige Ausgabe illustriert)