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“Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes.”

Film Written Broken Kings Horse Artistic Triumph Snakes Wraps

Author:James Cameron

“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

“The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.”

Broken Morality Claims Shame Triumph Thieves Bedroom Threatening Immoral Exposure Outraged Blackmail Burglary

Author:Karl Kraus

“. . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales - often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy . . . hold on!”

Knows Life Sometimes Suffering Justice Pay Broken Defeat This Life Triumph Sensitive God Knows Whales Vapor Accommodations Sissy

Author:Jack London

“That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.”

Source: Twilight of the Idols and the Antichrist

“THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea”

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats