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    Max Nowaz
    “Where’s my uncle?” she asked.
    “I don’t know who your uncle is, but if it as the guy who owned this place before I bought it, then he’s pushing up daisies.”
    “But it can’t be, he’s still young.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: drama, fiction, intrigue, magic, mystery, survival, thriller, urban-fantasy, witches
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    “Pilots used to fly planes manually, but now they operate a dashboard with the help of computers. This has made flying safer and improved the industry.
    Healthcare can benefit from the same type of approach, with physicians practicing medicine with the help of data, dashboards, and AI. This will improve
    the quality of care they provide and make their jobs easier and more efficient”
    ― Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
    tags: ai-applications, ai-solutions, cognitive-biases, cognitive-robotics, genomics, medical, medical-insights, medical-techniques, pharmaceuticals, surgery
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    Sara Pascoe
    “I have decided it's my mind that's woman. It's my narrator. It's my relationship to myself, and oddly, nothing at all to do with my body.”
    ― Sara Pascoe
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    Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin
    “Spouses and lovers may come and go, but our children are our children forever.”
    ― Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin, Sacrifices Beyond Kingdoms: A Provocative Romance Torn Between Continents and Cultures
    tags: battle, desire, enemies-to-lovers, forbidden, mystery, patriarchy, risk, romance, romantic-suspense, rule-breaking
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    Therisa Peimer
    “Aurelia was just about to take a sip of a mimosa when Mother Guardian snatched the flute away and promptly downed the drink in one gulp. Burping unashamedly, she said, "We can't have the validity of the marriage contracts jeopardized because the bride got rat-assed on her wedding day.”
    ― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
    tags: adventure, cult, death, drama, dystopian, fiction, future, mystery, sci-fi
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    William Kely McClung
    “The two shadows, black against the dark, defined by voids of light, moved at impossible speeds.”
    ― William Kely McClung, Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven
    tags: action, adventure, martial-arts, science-fiction, super-hero, thriller
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    Primo Levi
    “Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will ever be able to identify with Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Eichmann, and endless others. This dismays us, and at the same time gives us a sense of relief, because perhaps it is desirable that their words (and also, unfortunately, their deeds) cannot be comprehensible to us. They are non-human words and deeds, really counter-human...”
    ― Primo Levi, If This Is a Man • The Truce
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    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    “He watched the sun rise beyond the grape arbor. In the thin golden light the young leaves and tendrils of the Scuppernong were like Twink Weatherby's hair. He decided that sunrise and sunset both gave him a pleasantly sad feeling. The sunrise brought a wild, free sadness; the sunset, a lonely yet a comforting one. He indulged his agreeable melancholy until the earth under him turned from gray to lavender and then to the color dried corn husks.”
    ― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
    tags: sunrise, sunset
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    Jean Craighead George
    “The climate warmed. Wild grasses, flowers and trees took root in the land behind the huge rock. In time, their growing and dying made deep rich loam on which a magnificent forest grew. Into the forest came bear, deer, brightly colored birds, and the Pawtuxets, a tribe of the Wampanoag, The People of the Dawn.”
    ― Jean Craighead George, The First Thanksgiving
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    Dennis Lehane
    “I've built something valuable here. But valuable things also have a way of being misunderstood in their own time. Everyone wants a quick fix. We're tired of being afraid, tired of being sad, tired of feeling overwhelmed, tired of feeling tired. We want the old day back, and we don't even remember them, and we want to push into the future, paradoxically, at top speed. Patience and forbearance become the first casualties of progress.”
    ― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island
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    Norton Juster
    “Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them HAS to be right.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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    V (formerly Eve Ensler)
    “Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.”
    ― Eve Ensler, Insecure at Last
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    Tricia Copeland
    “This is what I wanted. A victory to prove to myself, and show my doubters, that I stand worthy, loved, and am lovable. So why does it not feel such?”
    ― Tricia Copeland, To be a Fae Guardian
    tags: drama, dramatic, engaging, exciting, fantasy, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, young-adult
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “It was as if we played chess after denying me both bishops and knights.”
    ― 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
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    Behcet Kaya
    “Even now, at this very moment, I feel like he’s going to pop up somewhere, laugh wholeheartedly, and say, ‘Hey everyone, I’m still here. This was all just a big practical joke.”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Deception: A Jack Ludefance Novel
    tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, insight, mystery, noir-mystery, thriller, unpredictable
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    J.K. Franko
    “You see, there are no pretty pink flowers in the woods at night.”
    ― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye
    tags: danger, darkness, doom, evil, fate, flowers, night
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    Mark Ellis
    “Merlin stood up. For once, late as it was, he was pleased to see the Assistant Commissioner because he had been trying unsuccessfully to get hold of him all day. “May I introduce Detective Bernard Goldberg of the New York Police Department.”
    Merlin held out a hand to the stocky young man now standing on the AC’s right. Detective Goldberg was an inch or two shorter than Merlin, with a closely cropped head of dark-brown hair and the crumpled face of a man who might have walked into a wall.”
    ― Mark Ellis, The French Spy: A classic espionage thriller full of intrigue and suspense
    tags: criminals, curiosity, history, investigation, soviet-history, war, wartime, wwii
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    O. Henry
    “I wouldn’t have a man,” declared Mrs. Cassidy, “that didn’t beat me up at least once a week. Shows he thinks something of you.”
    ― O. Henry, O. Henry: Complete Stories: Cabbages and Kings, Heart of the West, The Voice of the City, Rolling Stones... (Bauer Classics)
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    V.C. Andrews
    “El orgullo es el vicio siempre presente de los imbeciles”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Seeds of Yesterday
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    Robert M. Pirsig
    “We see much more of this loneliness now. It's paradoxical that that where people are the most closely crowded in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is greatest. Back where people are so spread out in Western Oregon and Idaho and Montana and the Dakotas you'd think the loneliness would have been greater, but we didn't see it so much. The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's the psychic distance, and in Montana and Idaho the physical distances are long but the psychic distances between people are small, and here, in primary America, it's reversed.”
    ― Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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    Ally Condie
    “Once you want something, everything changes.”
    ― Ally Condie, Matched
    tags: truths
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    T. Rafael Cimino
    “When your wife asks you for your opinion, she doesn't really want your opinion. She wants her opinion - just in a deeper voice.”
    ― T. Rafael Cimino, The Heir Apparent
    tags: marriage, marriage-advice
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