## Metadata - Author: [[Jim Powell]] - Full Title: The Breaking of Eggs - Category: #books ## Highlights - while the European world had fought its battle of ideas, while the principles of Marxism and democracy had pitted themselves against the class interests of capitalism, only by some unimaginable coition to produce the screaming bastard of consumerism - ([Location 404](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003T0G9KS&location=404)) - I felt like the head of some small country summoned to the White House to meet the President of the United States. It was flattering, suspicious and intimidating at the same time. ([Location 946](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003T0G9KS&location=946)) - bridges don’t mind who builds them, but poems care very much indeed. ([Location 2993](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003T0G9KS&location=2993)) - He awaited death as a widow awaits her pension. ([Location 3031](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003T0G9KS&location=3031)) - Laws of cause and effect had been abolished too. And, when they went, all purpose or moral value in the human will went also. ([Location 3049](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003T0G9KS&location=3049)) - I was not certain how one went about the business of embracing chaos, but perhaps predictability needed to be the first casualty of the process. ([Location 4330](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003T0G9KS&location=4330)) - I have this theory that Americans do not like to be anywhere that does not remind them of home, which I must say is a curious attitude for a country that is trying to run the world, but there we are. ([Location 4648](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003T0G9KS&location=4648))