“What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.”
Source: Gone with the Wind
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American author and journalist 1900–1949Related quotes
“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue!”
Act 4, Scene 1
The Great God Brown (1926)
“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue”
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Speech to the Aspen Institute ("Shaping a New Global Community") (5 August 1990) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108174
Third term as Prime Minister
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
Variant: And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.
Love and Life, ll. 11-15.
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“I might have a chance of starting a movement toward change in this broken system.”
As quoted in "Angus may be a king-maker" by Deborah McDermott in Seacoast Online (11 March 2012) http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120311/NEWS/203110325/-1/NEWSMAP
Context: I think I can honestly say that if Olympia had announced her retirement because of ill health or to spend more time with Jock I probably wouldn't have run. … What perked me up is why she is leaving. Olympia has 30 years of seniority, she's likable, she works very hard, and if she can't make it work, nobody in either party is going to make it work. … I don't have any illusions it will be easy, but I do think particularly if the two parties are closely divided, I will have an influence … I might have a chance of starting a movement toward change in this broken system. This country has serious problems, but you can't address them if the institution set up to address the problems is broken.