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#1

“I’ve got my Sig and I’m in a car I swiped,” Bert raged on.” I thought of that much ahead. I don’t miss! It’s like candy, Sammy. His car is candy red. Like Valentine’s Day for me!” I ain’t gonna let a perfect moment pass, Sammy. I’m my own man now in this stuff. I done enough already to earn the respect I don’t get. I’m not stupid, so go to bed.”
― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

tags: adventure, deceit, drama, exciting, humour, intrigue, past, romance, romantic-literary-fiction, suspicion

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#2

“She gripped the wheel and squared her shoulders. She didn’t have to do any of this alone. All she had to do was notify the society and put out an All Points Bulletin on Adam and she’d know everything there was to know about the man within 24 hours.”
― Kirsten Fullmer

tags: cozy-romance, small-town-mystery, small-town-romance, zocy-mystery

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#3

“Rags hate clutter the way healthy people hate cancer: it was offensive, invasive, and should be eliminated quickly and surgically.”
― Amy L. Bernstein, The Potrero Complex

tags: dystopian, fantasy, fiction, government, lies, love, mystery, power, romance, twists

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#4

“Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this, Squadron Leader. It was our war, our victory and now it is our Berlin. We tolerate your presence in this city… if that.”
― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

tags: army, battles, danger, destruction, life, secrets, spies, unrest, war

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#5

“If he shows aptitude toward the A’ris element, meaning toward the healing arts, then he should contact the Healer’s Collage. Not that they would know much about magic. Anyone can become a healer these days.”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

tags: fiction-writing, science-fiction, young-adult

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#6

“Soul power ripples outward in all directions, affecting everything— physical health, emotional well-being, relationships, families, work, and destiny.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: biblical, christ, christian, christian-spiritual-growth, christianity, deliverance-from-evil, faith-in-god, spiritual, spiritual-freedom, spiritual-welfare

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#7

“The television set then came after her, chomping its teeth. Upon reaching the living room, the television succeeded at eating her body bit-by-bit: first the legs, then the body, and finally her flailing arms.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: action, adult, complex, drama, fiction, literary-fiction, short-stories

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#8

“...whoever said that there was too much of a good thing never had a bad thing last too long. ”
― Douglas Weissman, Life Between Seconds

tags: beautiful, dark, friendship, literature, lonliness, memories, reality, sadness, uplifting

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#9

“Then, in an unusual moment, she grew emotional, which left little doubt about the level of profound respect and admiration Merkel had for her American colleague:
‘So eight years are coming to a close. This is the last visit of (President) Barack Obama to our country…I am very glad that he chose Germany as one of the stopovers on this trip…Thank you for the reliable friendship and partnership you demonstrated in very difficult hours of our relationship. So let me again pay tribute to what we’ve been able to achieve, to what we discussed, to what we were able to bring about in difficult hours.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

tags: calculation, european-history, goals, history, literary, marriage, personal-goals, relationships, speeches, women-in-politics

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#10

“They are the tracking devices we put into their suitcases. We’ll be there in less than a half-hour.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

tags: action, army, espionage, intelligence, nuclear-waste, officers, terrorist, traitors, us-army, us-intelligence

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#11

“Each day a whole world passes away, largely unappreciated, numbly relegated to obligation, commerce and routine. One day seems as unremarkable as the next. It's only through the inexorable accretion of days, weeks, months and years, that we come to appreciate with heartbreaking clarity how incredibly unique and precious each lost day has been.”
― S.W. Clemens

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#12

“I want you to understand what you are doing, not just perform tasks because I say so.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

tags: gardening, harvest, harvesting, herb-gardening, horticulture, organic, vegetable, vegetable-garden

48 likes

#13

“When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.”
― Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

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#14

“When it came to evil, to tolerate was to accommodate, to accommodate was to appease, and to appease was to concede defeat.”
― Frederick Forsyth, Avenger

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#15

“today and in a good winter mood, someone not subject to seasonal affective disorder, someone with a generous”
― David Guterson, Problems with People

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#16

“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

tags: homosexuality, maurice

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#17

“Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?'

'You know what. You know I'm going to be a ball player.'

'Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.' Satisfied, she turned back to her town.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

tags: writers, writing

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#18

“Unconditional Love conquers all!”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure

tags: inspirational, love

546 likes

#19

“Most of us can find our way out of the wilderness without Moses.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

tags: sci-fi, scifi, scifi-adventure

202 likes

#20

“What the hell, if you are going to roll the dice with Lucifer, I say go the distance.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

342 likes

#21

“To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion”
― Marcel Proust

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#22

“But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

tags: alone, back-up, death, death-of-a-loved-one, dying, fight, loss, parents

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#23

“I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

1335 likes

#24

“Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.”
― Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

tags: objectivism, reason, responsibility

227 likes

#25

“The sediments are a sort of epic poem of the earth.”
― Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us

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#26

“I do,” said Louis. “Before I can let you play with them, I have to clean them and pump them up with the precise amount of air as specified by POOPS.” “POOPS?” asked Eric Ovens. “The Professional Organization Of Playground Supervisors,” explained Louis. He showed them the POOPS handbook.”
― Louis Sachar, Wayside School 3-Book Collection: Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Wayside School Is Falling Down, Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger

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#27

“Amar não é algo que devamos fazer para sermos bons ou para tornar o mundo melhor, movidos por um dever moral abstracto ou porque deveríamos renunciar ao nosso hedonismo. Ligarmo-nos à energia assemelha-se à excitação, depois, à euforia e, por último, ao amor. Encontrar a energia suficiente para manter esse estado de espírito ajuda, com certeza, o mundo, mas ajuda-nos ainda mais directamente a nós. É a coisa mais hedonística que podemos fazer.”
― James Redfield, A Profecia Celestina

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#28

“I believe in the remade life, the possibilities inherent in our lesbian and gay chosen families, our families of friends and lovers, the healing that can take place among the most wounded of us. My family of friends has kept me alive through lovers who have left, enterprises that have failed, and all too many stories that never got finished. That family has been part of remaking the world for me.”
― Dorothy Allison

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#29

“To him, the drug released the complex brew within the brain that served up the savored past. To me, it proved that the past was living still, that we were all participants, all witnesses. I was Roger, I was Bodrugan, I was Cain; and in being so was more truly myself.”
― Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand

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#30

“Those swift to think are not always secure.”
― Sophocles

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