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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Our cousin Patrick Hacker McKaybees, died fighting by the side of the king.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood
    tags: action-and-adventure, action-fiction, adventure, fiction, knight, marriage, military, romantic-action, saviour, war-and-military
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    Todor Bombov
    “… the primitive comprehension that the state property represents a social one, their identification, and their equalization  could not resist the criticism of the time. The state property is not socialism. The state-monopoly property, as it was on the both sides of the Berlin Wall and which continues to be such one even after it dropped down, is not social property. There was never and nowhere any socialism! In the twentieth century, we passed through a system of utopian socialism as proof that this was not socialism that was not possible, but the utopia of the writers before Marx and after Marx. We were visited by a utopian socialism, which at the contemporary stage is simply capitalism—state, monopolistic.”
    ― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
    tags: civil-society, democratic, freedom, justice, liberty, monopolistic, myth, oppression, society, totalitarian-system
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    Sara Pascoe
    “Love is described like GOD.”
    ― Sara Pascoe
    tags: aniaml, female-body, feminism, love
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    Fayton Hollington
    “I'm on a mission
    Winning Novel / Screenplay written in Hollywood

    Google for updated info”
    ― Fayton Hollington
    tags: inspiratonal, life-lessons, medical
    35 likes

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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words.
    Mine was Baba.
    His was Amir. My name.
    Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 —and all that followed— was already laid in those first words.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: love
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    Herman Wouk
    “What did they care if the rabbis who found them with the books of haskala, of enlightenment, called them epicureans, atheists, breakers of the wall? These old epithets they began to take as names of honor. Out of their ranks came the minds and spirits that created modern Zionism. The fact that Zionism was cradled against the separatist learning of the old yeshivas colors the state of Israel to this hour.”
    ― Herman Wouk, This is My God: A Guidebook to Judaism
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: unsung-heroes, victory-defeat
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  • #8
    “You learn to move on without the people you love.”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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    Oliver Sacks
    “But who was more tragic, or who was more damned—the man who knew it, or the man who did not?”
    ― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
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    Sara Pascoe
    “Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: children-s, fantasy, occult, paranormal, supernatural, teenagers, urban, ya-paranormal, young-adult
    417 likes

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    Author Harold Phifer
    “Before she climbed into the car, I kindly let her know my back seats were very hard and very cold. Dead Eye Red responded, “Son, when I was your age, I would sit on a seat like this and smoke would appear!”
    Somewhat surprised and tickled, I said, “Ma'am, no one will ever look under your car to see if it’s washed.” I really should have known better before I opened my big fat mouth. She said, “Son, no one is looking at my butt, but I wash it anyway!”
    ― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
    tags: abuse, bullies, hope, manipulation, mental-illness, schizophrenic, struggle, true-story, truth, understanding
    109 likes

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    Dawn Chalker
    “Out of the bedroom window, Tara watches the silver moon in the night sky cast a faint glow on the pine trees.  Ian was right.  It’s time to move on.  Not to forget, but to forge ahead.”
    ― Dawn Chalker
    tags: accepting, connection, destiny, feelings, finding-yourself, future, love, motivation, moving-on, uplifting
    238 likes

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  • #14
    “Anyone who says "Trust me" is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: humour, life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, writer
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    J. Rose Black
    “Every day is a battle. Still. She doesn’t need this…this mess. The nightmares. She doesn’t deserve what I’d put her through. And she probably wouldn’t stick around anyway. Who would?”
    ― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath
    tags: adult-romance, drama, fiction, humour, literary-fiction, love, ptsd, romance, satire, steamy
    162 likes

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    Robert Reid
    “The powerful win loyalty through fear, the humble win loyalty through love. Love’s loyalty will always last longer”
    ― Robert Reid, The Empress:
    tags: battles, emotions, fantasy-fiction, heroes, lies, loss, pain, political-thriller, secrets, tense
    34 likes

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  • #17
    “My grandmother said, ‘It doesn’t really matter where you had to go, where you got the ring, or where you played the Super Bowl, all that matters is that you put in the work, you deserved it, and you earned it.”
    ― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
    tags: community-building, death, drama, eccentricities, fiction, friends, friendship, fun, humour, life
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    Shafter Bailey
    “The faint outlines of two packages on his front porch attracted his attention. The size of the packages matched his two packages that contained his Christmas gifts and handwritten cards for his son and daughter. Samantha wouldn’t do that, he thought.”
    ― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children
    tags: education-funding, educational-policy, generational-learning, justice, legislative-challenges, moral-responsibility, professional-organizations, resistance, school-reform, societal-change
    70 likes

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    K. Ritz
    “Whither be the heart of Justice?
                Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
                Whither be the heart of Justice?
                Lo, tis fast in stone.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, literary-fiction, magic-cultures, mystery, sorcery, wit
    920 likes

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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, Soldiers Three
    tags: endurance, strength-of-character
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    John Boyne
    “Just because someone looks sky at night, doesn`t mean it is astronaut.”
    ― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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    Tracy Kidder
    “Some problems are easy to find and hard to fix; some are hard to find and easy to fix; some go both ways.”
    ― Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine
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    Irène Némirovsky
    “Hun likte å le, og hun syntes synd på folk - Dickens-siden ved deg, vesle mor, pleide han å si.”
    ― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française
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    John Hersey
    “Under many houses, people screamed for help, but no one helped; in general, survivors that day assisted only their relatives or immediate neighbors, for they could not comprehend or tolerate a wider circle of misery.”
    ― John Hersey, Hiroshima
    15 likes



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