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#1

“The only thing the Marquis does in moderation is moderation”
― Harry F. MacDonald, Casanova and the Devil's Doorbell

tags: casanova, eighteenth-century, fiction, fiction-writing, historical-fiction, humourous, witty

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#2

“What is it that inspires you? What do you love to do? What would you do for free? At the beginning of my busi-ness career, my why was to become a millionaire, not a good why! And why not? Because that is an aspiration rather than a why. Aspirations, I have found, won’t fuel me when the going gets tough. But a true “why” will.”
― Richard Polak

tags: business-success, learning, self-help, self-improvement

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#3

“When blame and self-judgement are transformed, healed, and cease to be, we have reawakened without the myth, the mythos, of separation. We are One.”
― Wendy E. Slater, Into the Hearth, Poems-Volume 14

tags: ascension, awakened-mind, forgive-yourself, forgiveness, inspirational, spiritual-growth, wisdom-inspirational

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#4

“From the antique Persian rugs covering the gleaming hardwood floors to the molded tin ceilings and ornate chandeliers, the house was a showstopper. Throughout its long life, no one had allowed this home to fall into disrepair. Every detail of the wainscoting, every pocket door, every window, floor tile, and bathtub was original to the house.”
― Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street

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

227 likes

#5

“Evil humans were afoot.”
― Marilyn Dalla Valle, Westwind Secrets

tags: fiction, mystery, romance

57 likes

#6

“I trust no one. Not even myself.” —Joesph Stalin”
― Victoria Dougherty, The Hungarian

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#7

“The careful observance of discipline is the mark of the artiste.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Catch Trap

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#8

“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham - all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out and put down for what they”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

tags: animals, anna, anna-sewell, black-beauty, kindness, love, quote, religion, sewell

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#9

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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#10

“The price one pays for having a kind man at one’s elbow.”
― John Hersey, Fling and Other Stories

tags: marriage

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#11

“Do you see anything when you dream or are your dreams as empty as your eyes?”
― Eli Wilde, Orchard of Skeletons

tags: ai, danger, dystopian, friendship, future, graphic, horror, love, romance, ya-fantasy

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#12

“Get up you lazy bastard. The Governor wants a word with you,” said a guard.  He opened his eyes and smiled. There was another guard standing near the cell door in  anticipation of any trouble. The prisoner smiled at him, too.  Now what can the Governor want from me? He wondered. His dishevelled form seemed  incapable of coherent thought. “It’s nice of him to remember me,” he said aloud, trying to  concentrate. “Surprising he’s got any time for a worthless shit like you,” said the first guard.  “I once used to be a very important person,” the prisoner said feebly.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: 21st-century, action, drama, intrigue, thriller, thriller-novels-best

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#13

“I needed to bring my own gifts to my new home, not resist them, not sway to and fro like the tidal waters of the lagoon, but rather chart my own course through the shallows like an experienced boatman.”
― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

tags: convent, courage, fighting, justice, love, nuns, risk, sixteenth-century-venice, survival, women-rights

109 likes

#14

“The CID official said to the Russians, “I didn’t know contractors worked on weekends. Why are you two here today?”
― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

tags: drama, fiction, hunted, illicit, literary, mystery, suspense, suspense-thriller, suspicion, thriller

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#15

“…the excitement of doing something for the first time had passed. I laid there in the back seat looking at the moon. It was unobscured by clouds except for a few wisps here and there. (Mitch) put his arms around me, and we looked at the moon together. You think we’ll have a lot of moons like this, this month? Mitch asked. “I hope so,” I said. We turned to each other and laughed. He didn’t try to fuck me after that. We just talked for a while about music, school, our brothers, and Janice, of course. And then he drove me home.”
― Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

tags: compelling, domination, gender, informative, life-story, male, political-leaders, politics, revelatory, thought-provoking

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#16

“In this dirty-minded world you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore, or fast on your way to becoming one or the other.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

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#17

“if they brought you here,They'll put you to work. THEY'RE not readyto kill you YET.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

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#18

“But why bother trying to turn a monkey into a goat?”
― Lisa See, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

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#19

“Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: night

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#20

“Rachael, I don’t think this is a very good idea.” Adam tried to protest and break away, but it was too late. She had a good hold on him by now, and he was going nowhere.
“Not bad for a little man like you,” she said. “There seems to be something different about you lately.” Rachael smiled.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

386 likes

#21

“Part of the hem floated loose. She spun around again—the fabric tightened like wool on a spindle. She breathed in fear. The boat was farther away. She swung her head around—so was the shore.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: battles, classical-struggles, drama, family-life, hierarchy, naval-battles, passion, philosophical, rebellion

857 likes

#22

“Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.”
― Willa Cather

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#23

“Every way
Leads but astray,”
― Sophocles, Antigone

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#24

“The music of hope is everywhere. All you have to do is listen for it.”
― Christine M Knight, Life Song

tags: getting-through-the-hard-stuff, hope, inspiration, music

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#25

“What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

tags: desire, destruction, heart

178 likes

#26

“Conversations between persons who do not like one another's selves are always sterile.”
― Robert Graves, Seven Days in New Crete

tags: inspiration, poet, quotes, robert-graves

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#27

“TENTH • Each pair in attendance will now receive an envelope containing a set of clues. No two sets of clues are alike. It is not what you have, it’s what you don’t have that counts.”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

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