“A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.” HandsPainPastFiveBrokenPeriodsSorrowTwentiesEightThirtyCheerfulTwenty FiveBroken DownAuditorsThirty EightMental Pain Book:Self Analysis Source: Self Analysis
“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.” MenFirstsBookEndsMatterWould BeNumbersCenturyBrokenLettersTwentiesPrivilegeEnormousAdmireObsessedTwentieth CenturyJoyceUlyssesBroken ManTransubstantiation Author:Edna O'Brien
“Just recently, the administration of Barack Obama, which has broken all sorts of records in regards to deportation, picked up a Guatemalan man living here [in U.S]. I think he had been living here for twenty-five years, had a family, a business, and so on. He had fled from the Mayan region and they picked him up and deported him. To me, that's really sick.” ThinkingMenYearsRecordsFiveBrokenSickTwentiesRegardAdministrationBarackFive YearsRegionsTwenty FiveDeportation Author:Noam Chomsky
“I grow warm, I begin to feel happy. There is nothing extraordinary in this, it is a small happiness of Nausea: it spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of out time - the time of purple suspenders, and broken chair seats; it is made of white, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain. No sooner than born, it is already old, it seems as though I have known it for twenty years.” FeelsYearsMadeSeemsGrowsBornWhiteKnownBrokenTwentiesExtraordinaryBottomEdgesSpreadWarmOilInstantSeatsChairsPurpleStainsPuddlesNauseaSuspenders Book:Nausea Source: Nausea
“Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant)” YearsSaidGuyFightingBornHoursPleasureParticularBrokenTenOfficeTwentiesPrisonHungrySatDaringGrandfatherDesksVowMy GrandfatherTrampsFighting For LoveOffice Desk Author:Isaac Babel
“Harry was speeding toward the ground when the crowd saw him clap his hand to his mouth as though he was going to be sick-he hit the field on all fours-coughed-and something gold fell into his hand. 'I've got the snitch!' he shouted, waving it above his head, and the game ended in complete confusion. 'He didn't catch it, he nearly swalloed it,' Flint was still howling twenty minutes later, but it made no difference-Harry hadn't broken any rules and Lee Jordan was still happily shouting the results-Gryffindor had won by 170 points to 60.” MadeStillsHandsGamesDifferencesResultsSawsMinutesFieldsBrokenMouthsGoldSickTwentiesCrowdsConfusionJordanShoutingSpeedingFoursGryffindorSnitch Author:J. K. Rowling
“This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would ... ... but I'm a man of thirty - of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.” MenShouldMovingBornBrokenMassRainTwentiesThirtyMusclesChestsAgonyBaptismBorn AgainOlder Man Author:Frank Miller
“Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles.” YearsWellsImaginationBrokenSittingTwentiesLegsIronBubblesPsychiatrist Author:Ilona Andrews
“Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsWritingI CanWarWholeMomentsTodayUsedLyingSunWrittenBrokenRevolutionConsequenceDiedTwentiesShameAccidentsMaking LoveDelaySixteenContraceptivesScorching Book:Simple Passion Source: Simple Passion
“There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life - and that is, whether to be bitter or not. Women often come to this in their late thirties or early forties. They are at the point where they are full up to their ears with everything and they've "had it" and "the last straw has broken the camel's back" and they're "pissed off and pooped out." Their dreams of their twenties may be lying in a crumple. There may be broken hearts, broken marriages, broken promises.” HeartMayImportantDreamLastsLyingDecisionOur LivesBrokenPromiseLateEarsTwentiesBitterFortyPsychicsStrawsCamelsPissed OffBroken PromisesFuture LifeBroken Marriage Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. When we all know everyone’s life has been hard enough already it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be clear I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there’s gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts.” KnowsWantHeartHas BeensHardEnoughPlayGamesHeavenWaitingWatchesClearMinutesBrokenThousandTwentiesFlyingThis LifeExtrasScarShatteredPlay HardCheckmateCheckersEnough Already Author:Andrea Gibson
“People think that I reached the top overnight; well, it took me fourteen years. I was twenty-nine before I really made it. I've had my jaws and hands broken. One arm is out of place. I've paid my dues in this business.” PeopleThinkingYearsWellsMadeHandsBrokenArmsPaidTwentiesDuesNineMade ItFourteen Author:Larry Holmes