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    Max Nowaz
    “You don’t think he’s our man?” asked Adam. It occurred to him that Ramsbottom was not exactly forthcoming with information.
    “I didn’t say that,” Ramsbottom said. “In fact he is behaving very cautiously indeed, which makes me feel very suspicious.”
    “He has probably figured out that you are following him,” said Adam. “One can hardly fail to notice you hanging around all the time.”
    “That may be so,” said Ramsbottom.
    “Can’t you get a disguise or something?” asked Adam. “So he does not recognise you.”
    ― 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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    “The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull burst like a ripe cabbage showering his horrified comrades with viscous brain and bits of bone.”
    ― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
    tags: atrocities, facts, fiction, history, lies, literature, secrets, war, wartime
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    C. Toni Graham
    “Life is complicated. If life was simple, wouldn’t that make us simpletons?”
    ― C. Toni Graham
    tags: attitude, choice, education, goodness, happiness, inspiring, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting
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    Harvey Havel
    “After the front legs emerged, what looked like a quartered and bloodied cut of steak followed.  This piece of steak had rich and dark fur, wet with the mare’s internal membranes that covered the whole body, but it did not have the look of a horse at all.  And yet from the steak’s center came this pulsating heartbeat, as though its pace-setting qualities tried in vain to pull away or escape from its thoroughbred side.”
    ― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
    tags: adult, adventure, complex, drama, griping, intrigue, literary-fiction, perspectives, revenge, thrilling
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    Kirsten Fullmer
    “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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    Charles Dowding
    “Keep an open mind and try some new methods.”
    ― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
    tags: climate, four-seasons, gardening, harvest, harvesting, healthy-vegetable, plant-guide, seasons, sustainable
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    Claudia Clark
    “In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the press a big smile, saying, ‘I think what she said was good. I’m teasing.’ The laughter in the room drowned out the sounds of the cameras clicking and flashing, with Merkel’s giggle and smile among the loudest.”
    ― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
    tags: american-history, diplomacy, european-history, history, international, literary, politics, relationships, speeches, women-in-politics
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    S.G. Blaise
    “First, those spaceships are mine, including the one Callum came here with, and not free to use as you wish,” Caderyn says. “Second, you are not a Teryn, and as such I do not have to honor your Bride’s Choice claim. We are done here.”
    ― S.G. Blaise, True Teryn
    tags: ancient-traditions, culture, drama, intrigue, lies, magic, saga, traditions, trilogy, truth
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    “Of course, I couldn’t explain this vector calculus concept and so, slightly embarrassed in front of Rahul and the other Bengali students, I told Sanjit just that; he had cornered me, and honesty emerged as my only option. Simultaneous to my humiliating disclosure of the truth, Sanjit gradually inched toward where I was sitting. After hearing my reply, he slowly returned to his teacher stool and whiteboard, his back turned away from the class, the suspense building and his words impending, before turning around and breaking into speech, “Don’t trust your interior monologue. If you are asked something and you know it, then express or demonstrate it. Don’t just nod or say yes because then you are lying to yourself. Any ass can say yes, but not all asses can express it.” I modified my first impression: Sanjit was full of explicit aphorisms. Humbled, those words encouragingly rang between my ears for quite some time.”
    ― Colin Phelan, The Local School
    tags: find-oneself, friendships, identity, life-lessons, personal-identity, philosophy, poetry, political-history, teachings, universal-values
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    Gregory Dickow
    “The condition of your soul will determine the condition of your life. Because it determines how you think, what you feel, and what you choose to do.”
    ― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose
    tags: abmition, awakening, be-happy, believe, change, soul, spirituality, values, wander, writer
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Cung went to his section commander Corporal Binh Chien Bui and spoke to him. He said, “Binh, come quickly, something strange is going on!”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, war, war-recount
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    Willa Cather
    “I had the sense of coming home to myself, and of having found out what a little circle man’s experience is.”
    ― Willa Cather, My Ántonia
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    Euripides
    “We'll see how the sky catches fire. We'll see how she feeds the flames with her implacable hate.”
    ― Euripides, Medea
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    Jim Fergus
    “Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?
    ”
    ― Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
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    Gillian Flynn
    “Do you understand this is serious?"

    "I understand you think it's serious.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
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    Robert Munsch
    “Prince Ronald said, Elizabeth, your hair is all dirty. You are wearing an ugly paper bag. You don't have any shoes on and you smell like a dragon's ear. Come back and rescue me when you're dressed like a real princess.

    Elizabeth said, Ronald, your hair is all nice. Your clothes are all pretty. You look like a nice guy, but guess what? You are a bum.

    They didn't get married after all.”
    ― Robert Munsch
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