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“Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.”

Ifs Wells Two Enough Strong Family Marriage Too Much Built Standing Posts Novelists Collapse Strong Enough Being Strong Porch Stand Strong

Book:The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“The work of memory collapses time.”

Memories Collapse

Author:Walter Benjamin

“We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse, would be pithless, a straw blown in the wind. But how can you pray--really pray, I mean--with one against who you have a grudge or whom you have been discussing critically with another? Try it. You will find it cannot be done.”

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Author:Amy Carmichael

“I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time.”

Roles One Thing Collapse Playing Roles

Book:Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

“What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”

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Author:Walt Whitman

“[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.”

Memories Burden Collapse

Author:Milan Kundera

“Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then she had been terrified of losing Elend. Now her fears were more nebulous - worries of what would come after she was gone, worries of what would happen to the people of the empire if she failed.”

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Book:The Hero of Ages: Mistborn Book Three

Source: The Hero of Ages: Mistborn Book Three

“…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter the course of his life, and bring a fledgeling nation to the brink of collapse. I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.”

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Author:Seth Grahame-Smith

“happened as I listened: I felt pain. Not in my head, not in my arm, not in my leg; everywhere at once. I told myself there was no difference between being “inside” and being “outside,” that it all came down to X’s and O’s that could be acquired in any number of different ways, but the pain increased to a point where I thought I might collapse, and I limped away.”

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Book:A Visit From the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

“I think the world has mostly ended because the cities we wander through are as rotten as we are. Buildings have collapsed. Rusted cars clog the streets. Most glass is shattered and the wind drifting through the hollow high-rises moans like an animal left to die. I don't know what happened. Disease? War? Social collapse? Or was it just us? The Dead replacing the Living? I guess it's not so important. Once you're arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which road you took.”

Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition

“My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One such melting occurs in summer rain, at midnight, during the vine-green breathing time right before sleep. You have to ask the right question, throw the right rope bridge, to get there-and then bolt across the chasm between you, before your bridge collapses.”

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Author:Karen Russell

“That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.”

World Wanted Dark Collapse

Book:Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition

“Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.”

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Author:Adrienne Rich

“For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference.”

Humans Problem Differences Response Environmental Making A Difference Republic Collapse Antidote Human Society Haiti Caricatures Determinism Constrain Environmental Problems Environmental History Dominican Republic

Book:Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

Source: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

“He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.”

Ifs Book Whole Library Collapse Replaced Shelves Bricks Liable Muttering

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.”

Want Mean States Choices Fall Beats Safety Structure Alternatives Collapse Safety Net

Author:Daniel Handler

“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.”

Mind I Can Highest Mouths Paint Climbs Collapse My Thoughts Ceilings Eloquent Cathedrals Intricate

Book:Warm Bodies: A Novel

Source: Warm Bodies: A Novel

“If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Died Bones Collapse

Book:Crave

Source: Crave

“I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture of a town. These streets with their houses did not exist, they were but a ludicrous projection of the moon's sumptuous personality. This was a city of Pretend, created by the hypnotism of moonnight. -- Yet when I examined the moon she too seemed but a painting of a moon and the sky in which she lived a fragile echo of color. If I blew hard the whole shy mechanism would collapse gently with a neat soundless crash. I must not, or lose all.”

Source: The Enormous Room

“The possibility of physical and mental collapse is very real now... but collapse is out of the question; as a solution or even a cheap alternative, it is unacceptable. No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind.”

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Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.”

Ifs Sun Forever Collapse Fault In Our Stars

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.”

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Author:Walt Disney

“i cried when i saw those buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart.”

Heart Saws Building Broken Collapse Cried

Author:Suheir Hammad

“A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself.”

Winning Energy Struggle Relationship Intention About Yourself Collapse Power Struggle Spiritual Partnership Learning About Yourself

Author:Gary Zukav

“I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other." He's right. We did. The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.”

Ifs Looks Eye Lasts Lying Sides President Missing Conversation Dear Release His Eyes Strings Collapse Coins Remorse Amusement Arrows Plunge Balconies

Author:Suzanne Collins

“He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union . This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. "I suppose none of this means very much to you." "Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. "I was only two years old.”

Years Wells Mean Long Said Stills Two Enemy Wall Army Unions Communism Two Years Soviet Collapse Long Ago Soviet Union Commanders Alex Berlin Two Year Olds Berlin Wall

Author:Anthony Horowitz

“Burn, baby, burn,” she muttered in a hard, satisfied voice. I cleared my throat. “As much as I hate to interrupt the supreme satisfaction you’re taking in watching the mansion blaze to the ground, I’d really like to get out of here before the whole house collapses on top of us.”

Hard Whole Hate House Voice Baby I Hate Satisfaction Supreme Satisfied Throat Collapse Mansions Gin Blanco

Author:Jennifer Estep

“In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.”

World Long Stills Body Fall Black Water Dark Journey Bottom Bones Crush Sand Covered Collapse Decay Norm Vessel Long Journey Dark Days Algae

Author:China Mieville

“My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.”

Heart Process My Heart Chests Collapse Vacuums

Book:Thirteen Reasons Why

Source: Thirteen Reasons Why

“Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?”

Ifs Wells Mean Use Might Able Energy Busy Collapse Breaking Down

Author:J. D. Salinger

“No matter how often I think I can't stand it anymore, I always do. There is no alternative. I don't fall, I don't foam at the mouth, faint, collapse or die. It's the same for all of us. You can't get out of the inside of your own head. Something keeps you going. Something always does.”

Thinking Doe I Can Matter Dies Fall Mouths Alternatives Collapse Foam

Book:The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

Source: The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

“It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.”

People World Shows Collapse

Book:A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a baby. We lost gracefully. And when someone won, he didn't act like he'd just become king of the world, either. Athletes in my day were simply humble in our victory. I believe we were more mature then...Maybe it's because the media puts so much pressure on athletes; maybe it's also the money. In my day we competed for the love of the sport...In my day we patted the guy who beat us on the back, wished him well, and that was it.”

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Author:Louis Zamperini

“Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.”

People Knows Needs Feels Might Happens Nations Fear Race Get Away Collapse Civilisation Might Is Right

Book:When We Were Orphans

Source: When We Were Orphans

“Rose Tyler: Can't you come through properly? The Doctor: Then the whole thing would fracture. The two universes would collapse. Rose Tyler: So?”

Two Whole Universe Doctors Rose Collapse Fracture

Author:Russell T Davies

“Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.”

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Book:Life of Christ

Source: Life of Christ

“After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.”

Country Culture Streets Wall Collapse Survived

Author:Graydon Carter

“It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.”

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner.”

Source: Life Together

“We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.”

Trying Persons Different Next Born Fire Our Lives Imagine Building Collapse

Book:Sever

Source: Sever

“Day appears again. This time he leans in close enough for his hair to brush, light as silk, against my cheeks. He pulls me towards for a long kiss. The scene vanishes, replaced abruptly by a stormy night and Day struggling through the rain, blood dripping from his leg and leaving a trail behind him. He collapses onto his knees in front of Razor before the whole scene disappears again.”

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Author:Marie Lu

“Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade. Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.”

Light Eye Growth Darkness Flow Paint Release Fades Collapse Within You Vines Choreography Blooming Lapses Calligraphy Darkness Within Time Lapse

Author:Laini Taylor

“The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.”

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Book:War Talk

Source: War Talk

“The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.”

“In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side - there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.”

Earth Song Order Sides Powerful Music Air Return Structure Carrie Territory Collapse Unleashed

Author:Gilles Deleuze

“History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.”

War Politics Economic Military Example Campaigns Empires Anti War Antiwar Collapse Impressive Cusp Economic Collapse

Book:Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy

Source: Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy

“You know the theory of cell irritability? If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original shape. And then, the thousandth time you poke this amoeba, the cell will completely collapse and become nothing. That's kind of what it's like being famous. People say hi, how are you doing, and after the thousandth time, you just get angry; you really pop.”

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Author:Bill Murray

“I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.”

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Author:Pat Boone

“The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.”

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Book:A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

“The agricultural co-operative movement has been a severe ideological and political struggle from the very beginning. No cooperative can be established without going through such a struggle. Before a brand-new social system can be built on the site of the old, the site must be swept clean. Invariably, remnants of old ideas reflecting the old system remain in people's minds for a long time, and they do not easily give way. After a co-operative is established, it must go through many more struggles before it can be consolidated. Even then, the moment it relaxes its efforts it may collapse.”

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung