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    M.J. Santley
    “God did not create man. Man created god.
    He did this to help him deal with death, the unknown, and all the other bo**ocks that he couldn't quite get his head around.”
    ― MJ Santley, Lost in the Crowd
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    Olivia Hardy Ray
    “Evil does not alter easily.....”
    ― Olivia Hardy Ray, Annabel Horton, Lost Witch of Salem
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    Naomi Novik
    “I’m not your dear girl,” Kasia said, with a bite in her tone that silenced him.”
    ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
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    Anita Diamant
    “Zilpah had little use for men, whom she described as hairy, crude, and half human. Women needed men to make babies and to move heavy objects, but otherwise she didn't understand their purpose, much less appreciate their charms.”
    ― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent
    tags: humour, men, women
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    Walter Isaacson
    “In other words, the idea for the iPad actually came before, and helped to shape, the birth of the iPhone. ”
    ― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
    tags: the-raven
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    Iain Banks
    “I don't think you really belong here, Aviger." Xoxarle nodded wisely, slowly.

    Aviger shrugged, and did not raise his eyes. "I don't think any of us do."

    "The brave belong where they decide." Some harshness entered the Idiran's voice.”
    ― Iain Banks
    tags: belonging, bravery
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    Megan Abbott
    “that the things you want, you never get them. And if you do, they’re not what you thought they’d be. But you’d still do anything to keep them. Because you’d wanted them for so long.”
    ― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me
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    Denis Johnson
    “War is ninety percent myth anyway, isn’t it? In order to prosecute our own wars we raise them to the level of human sacrifice, don’t we, and we constantly invoke our God. It’s got to be about something bigger than dying, or we’d all turn deserter. I think we need to be much more conscious of that. I think we need to be invoking the other fellow’s gods too.”
    ― Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke
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    Kathy Acker
    “i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.”
    ― Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates
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    K. Ritz
    “If one does not react to gossip, the informer hushes more quickly.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The artillery fire which helped in holding off the enemy advance against the Australian positions appeared to be getting always closer. A radio operator called Vic Grice somehow replaced the antenna on Buick’s radio. That had been shot off, thus rendering the radio in-operational.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, vietnam, war, war-recount
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    “I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”
    ― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted
    tags: action, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-novel, mystery, noir-mystery, nvestigation, thriller
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    “Scott could feel the contents of his stomach flip over and over on themselves. He turned to the side and retched, frothy yellow bile spilled out onto the newspaper covered floor, filling the room with the putrid stench of previously ingested alcohol.

    'Look's like someone can't hold their drink,' McBlane said, and Dominic and Shugg laughed.

    Scott was still staring at the steam rising from his evacuated stomach contents as he heard the hammer fall. The dull crack of bone splintering under its weight.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: murder, prose, visual-moments
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    Todor Bombov
    “Like a gloomy and sinister paradox since its apparition until now, socialism suffered terrible and terrifying metamorphoses. With the name of the most human doctrine—Socialism—the most ominous and naughty crimes against humanity were done. The National Socialism of Hitler created Auschwitz and Majdanek and the People’s socialism of Stalin — Gulag and Kolima! And both of them buried more than fifty million people! That’s monstrous!”
    ― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
    tags: lower-class, monopoly, non-fiction, planned-capitalism, political-principles, social-equality, socialism, sovereignty, upper-class, ussr
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    Gary Clemenceau
    “Gray-matter auditors stepped in and shut down my eyes, confiscated my keys.”
    ― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity
    tags: auditors, corporategreed, officesatire, oneliners, sharethis, surrealnoir, weirdlit
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    “Here we have a stopwatch turned on for life, which is why the most valuable thing we have is the time allotted to us by life, which is something that should not be burned in vain.”
    ― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean
    tags: deepreads, lifelessons, philosophicalfiction, spiritualjourney, thepythagorean, timeisprecious, valueyourtime
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    Max Nowaz
    “I’m fucking asking you!” The man stood his ground.
    From the corner of his eye Adam could see the other man getting up from his chair. It was time to go. Adam head-butted the first man who was blocking his way, and then kneed him in the groin for good measure. As the man doubled up, Adam pushed past him.”
    ― 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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    “Someone cared how this looked. Someone took time.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, Killer
    tags: creepycalm, crime, crimefiction, forensicsvibe, gripping, intense, investigation, psychologicalthriller, suspense
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    Aimee Cabo Nikolov
    “Love is the Answer, God is the Cure!”
    ― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure
    tags: inspirational, love, self-help, survivor
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when I beheld my person reflected in water or my shadow in the moonshine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: alone
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    Ransom Riggs
    “He was a human exclamation point, but carried himself with such dignity that I couldn't laugh at him.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Jostein Gaarder
    “The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
    tags: education
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    Aldo Leopold
    “Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. … That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.”
    ― Aldo Leopold, Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation (Library of America: Written by Aldo Leopold, 2013 Edition, (Reprint) Publisher: Library of America [Hardcover]
    tags: ecology
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