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    “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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    Max Nowaz
    “Somebody always had to pay, and he was glad it was not going to be him. Meanwhile he had managed to ruin the perfect marriage by turning Dick into a crayfish and making Rachael think that he had run off with another woman.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
    tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller
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    Karl Braungart
    “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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    Kirsten Fullmer
    “Heidi's role as grand master was to monitor all the women and to manage their locations and communication. Even though she’d done this many times on multiple missions, her heartbeat still pounded in her ears.”
    ― Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street
    tags: cozy-mystery, cozy-romance, small-town-mystery
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    Amy L. Bernstein
    “The crowd, most on the verge of premature middle age, were mainly drinking in intimate pairs, whispering in one another’s ears, laughing, touching. Public intimacy was the new sexy and still carried a whiff of taboo.”
    ― Amy L. Bernstein, The Potrero Complex
    tags: brainwashing, fear, freedom, government-dictatorship, manipulation, media, mind-control, obstacles, sorrow
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: battles, death, determination, fighting, fighting-for-your-life, grit, inspiring, veterans
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    John Bennardo
    “I once bought my producer a case of Mountain Dew, his favorite soda, as a thank you for all he'd done for me. He was really surprised - his favorite drink is actually 7UP. But he complimented me for getting the color of the can right.”
    ― John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake
    tags: biting-satire, celebrities, fiction, honest, humorous, literature, modern-fiction, satire, satirical, satirical-fiction
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  • #8
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Death rides on all of our shoulders from the day we are born.”
    ― 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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    Kyle Keyes
    “where there's a Clark, there's a Lewis”
    ― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus
    tags: fiction
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    C. Toni Graham
    “We have one life, THIS life. It is this limited lifetime that you have to make the most of. Live it! Embrace it, don’t waste it. Listen with intention to what that inner voice has been telling you. Draw, write, travel, build, teach, inspire, learn and create because THAT’s living. Feel your life with joy and passion for what you bring to it. Your talents are meant to be embraced and shared. It makes us better.”
    ― C. Toni Graham
    tags: embrace, journey, joy, life, opportunity, passion, satisfaction
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  • #11
    Harvey Havel
    “She likes me.  I can tell.  Problem is, she won’t admit that to the boyfriends she brings over.”
    ― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
    tags: fiction, horror, humour, literary-fiction, paranormal, politics, sci-fi, science-fiction, short-stories
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    Gregory Dickow
    “When you understand why you were born, you can handle whatever comes your way. You stop running from your past, from your pain, and from your mistakes.”
    ― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose
    tags: find-god, god-quotes, godly, love, self-awareness, self-love, spiritual-quotes, spiritualism, spirituality, wisdom
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    Peter S. Beagle
    “Anyway, since you and I must choose one road to follow, out of the many that run to the same place in the end, it might as well be a road that a unicorn has taken. We may never see her, but we will always know where she has been. Come, then. Come with me.
    So they began their new journey, which took them in its time in and out of most of the folds of the sweet, wicked, wrinkled world, and so at last to their own strange and wonderful destiny.”
    ― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
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    Mildred D. Taylor
    “It was only then that I realized that Jeremy never rode the bus, no matter how bad the weather. As”
    ― Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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    Peggy Parish
    “The door opened.
    "We're here," said Mrs. Rogers.
    Aunt Myra came in.
    "Now!" said Amelia Bedelia.
    "Greetings, greetings, greetings,"
    said the three children.
    "What's that about?" said Mrs. Rogers.
    "You said to greet Aunt Myra with Carols," said Amelia Bedelia.
    "Here's Carol Lee, Carol Green, and Carol Lake."
    "What lovely Carols," said Aunt Myra.
    "Thank you.”
    ― Peggy Parish, Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia
    tags: humor
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
    "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: beauty, children, classic, nature, spring
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  • #17
    Dave Cullen
    “World.”
    ― Dave Cullen, Columbine
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  • #18
    Shel Silverstein
    “TURNING INTO
    Swingin` from
    A hick`ry bough
    I felt so brave
    I hollered...
    WoW
    But down I fell
    Just like a bomb
    And I heard my "wow"
    Turn into...
    MoM”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: mom, mother
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    Munro Leaf
    “And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly”
    ― Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand
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    Johanna Spyri
    “But then we must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.”
    ― Johanna Spyri, Heidi
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    Olive Ann Burns
    “There’s nothing like a Harley-Davidson for getting around mud holes, rocks, and wagon ruts on dirt roads—or for making an impression on girls.”
    ― Olive Ann Burns, Leaving Cold Sassy
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    John Patrick Kennedy
    “Nothing dies in Hell.”
    ― John Patrick Kennedy, Plague of Angels
    tags: death, hell, plague-of-angel
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    Laura Hillenbrand
    “As he walked over the bridge, Louie glanced back. Some of the guards and camp officials stood in the compound, watching them go. A few of the sickest POWs remained behind, awaiting transport the next day. Fitzgerald stayed with them, unwilling to leave until the last of his men was liberated.*”
    ― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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