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    Gary Clemenceau
    “Something was very wrong, somewhere, and if I didn’t get away soon, I feared it would be too late: I’d have no choice but to join them.”
    ― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity
    tags: foreboding, pageturner, stakes, surrealnoir, tension, thrilleradjacent
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The American generals could only think in terms of large armies and huge battles. They believed or hoped that an enemy who chose to hide in jungles and tunnels would quickly be flushed out by American fire-power and then die in open battle.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, war, war-recount
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    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
    “… Exhausting climbs lay ahead. It was Sunday … May 17th … The path seemed to climb from dawn till dusk, the rain poured down nearly all day. The mud was worse than ever, and more slippery. Maggie, the elephant, was heavily laden, and at one time it seemed hopeless to expect her to struggle up those towering hills … as the light was going we reached the camp, we found it only a huddle of shelters already occupied on a hill-top 4000 ft high, across which a cold wind swept … Dr Russell”
    ― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942
    tags: classified, courageous-leadership, exhausted-elephant, hidden-agendas, inside-story, military-leaders, miscommunication, nagumo, planes
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    “There’s lotsa bad apples out there. It ain’t you, it’s the bushel of fruit available for the pickin’ that’s the problem.”
    ― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss
    tags: criminal-activity, fighting, freedom, gender-roles, men-vs-women, mystery, racism, resources, stability, violence
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  • #5
    “Her name wasn’t Jane. Not legally. But she wore it now like a uniform: plain, practical, invisible.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel
    tags: action, fantasy, fast-paced, intense, psychological, scary, supernatural, tense, thriller, uspense
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    Todor Bombov
    “Yesterday, I asked a robot, Gumball I think, do you know Murphy’s law of gravitation? It answered, ‘No, sir, I know only Newton’s and Einstein’s laws of gravitation; I don’t know Murphy’s law.’ I replied, ‘Eh, Gumball, the slice always falls with the buttered side to the floor. That’s Murphy’s law.’” Everyone burst into laughter.”
    ― Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan
    tags: action, drama, dystopian, fiction, futuristic, machines, robots, sci-fi, science-fiction, technology
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Notation on Quark Manipulation as Applied to the Time/Space Continuum.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood
    tags: action, compelling, different-worlds, family-love, fiction, hero, marriage, power, romance, thrilling
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    Mark Ellis
    “Goldberg was a tough, square-jawed New York detective who by various odd quirks of fate now held a position in the US  military administration in London. In 1942, the British government had ceded to the American military police all legal jurisdiction over American troops stationed in the UK.”
    ― Mark Ellis, Death of an Officer
    tags: daggers, drama, fiction, fighting, historical, history, rifles, suspense, weaponry, weapons
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    Don Hynes
    “Let me rise in darkness,
    be fed by morning silence
    and choose each day to say yes.
     ”
    ― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
    tags: chase-dreams, conquering, dreamer, joy, life, love, respect, smile, soar
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    Graham Pryor
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    The she-wolf visibly recoiled. “You speak with the dead? Then you are truly the one spoken of who has come to save us.” She stood immediately and gave a shrill howl to her pack, all the wolves in the glade sitting up with ears pricked. “I give you Two-heads,” called the she-wolf, “the shaman our elders foretold, he comes to save us from the predations of the men from the sky...”
    ― Graham Pryor, Cerberus
    tags: action, drama, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, general, mystery, past, science
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    Susan Rowland
    “But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: betrayal, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, murder, psychological, suspense, thriller
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    Annie Dillard
    “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living. Each day is the same, so you remember the series afterward as a blurred and powerful pattern.”
    ― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
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    Jerome K. Jerome
    “Olyanok, akik próbálták, mondták nekem, hogy a tiszta lelkiismeret nagyon boldoggá és megelégedetté teszi az embert; de ezt a teli gyomor éppúgy elvégzi, csakhogy olcsóbban és sokkal könnyebben.”
    ― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
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    Bev Stout
    “He glared at her. "Aye, and you shall be the best cabin boy I have ever had or I will feed you to the sharks. Savvy?" He turned and stomped back to the
    ship”
    ― Bev Stout, Secrets of the Realm
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
    tags: love
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    Rohinton Mistry
    “Когда люди ощущают свою беспомощность, они начинают разглагольствовать, чтобы почувствовать себя лучше. Или отрицают существование беззаконий.”
    ― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters
    tags: people-nature
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    Rachel Carson
    “At altitudes of 6000 to 16,000 feet, and with wind velocities reaching 45 miles an hour, many living insects have been taken.”
    ― Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us
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