Quotes about break
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“One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline…. But also every single day a kid needs a break.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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“But, true, I’ve wept too much! Dawns break hearts./ Every moon is brutal, every sun bitter.”

Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet

Variant: But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

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Thomas Moore photo

“You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.”

Farewell! But Whenever You Welcome the Hour, st. 3.
Source: Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

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“The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

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“Each day I live in a glass room
Unless I break it with the thrusting
Of my senses and pass through
The splintered walls to the great landscape.”

Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) English writer, artist, poet and illustrator

"Each Day I Live in a Glass Room," A Reverie of Bone and other Poems (1967)

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“Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
- Tin Man”

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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“Doesn't matter who it is
I'll friggin break 'em
-Grimmjow jaggerjaques”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach, Volume 24

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“They didn't break me. I broke myself.”

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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“Hearts don't really break. If only they could.”

Source: 22/11/63

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“People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

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Christopher Moore photo

“Shoes off in the whale! And don't try and make a break for the anus.”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Source: Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

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“It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.”

Tony Parsons (1953) British writer

Source: Man and Wife

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“The aim of literature… is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”

Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) American writer, editor, and professor

"Florence Green is 81".
Source: Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964)
Context: His examiner... said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart."

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Robert Jordan photo

“You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 November 1990)

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“On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath

Source: Cosmic Trigger 2: Down to Earth

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“But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

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“The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.”

Chip Heath (1963) American writer

Source: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

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“When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

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“You were never able to break her. She is the stone of this kingdom.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Quintana of Charyn

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“Yeah, don't you take a break?'
'I don't have time for breaks.'
'That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.”

Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979) contemporary Australian writer of novels for young adults

Source: Does My Head Look Big In This?

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“Her name is. And she has taught me more as a mistress than[Justice] ever did! She has taught me thatis meaningless without. is honest. makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike,.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

Source: V for Vendetta, Vol. II of X

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“The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.”

Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) German jurist, political theorist and professor of law

Source: Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

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“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”

III, 7
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book III

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“To make an omelet you must first break some eggs.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Unleash the Night

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“Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same.”

Jace Herondale, to Zachariah, pg. 236
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

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“Under Adverse conditions - some people break down, some break records”

Shiv Khera (1961) Indian politician

Source: You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers

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