#wreckage

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#artist #beyond #excessively #him #literature

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#just #made #money #most #much

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#know #september #summer #through #wander

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#famine #future #human #in the past #instead

The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#loves #roads #strewn #wreckage