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    Nancy O'Meara
    “The point is to be compassionately, not cruelly, honest. Tell the person what you have heard that worries you. Allow him to respond. You may be surprised at how much sense his answers make.”
    ― Nancy O'Meara, The Cult around the Corner: A Handbook on Dealing with Other People's Religions
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    Yvonne Korshak
    “Running out the anchor line, the pirates babbled to one another, and in the tangle of their barbaric language, Aspasia listened for one word—Athens. It lit up the darkness in her mind, like the single glint her eyes fixed on above the distant gray-green hills.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: adventure, athens, democracy, educational, evolution, fiction, greece, love, love-story, novel
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “  “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He then ran to where his scrape was and returned with the weapon.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: documented, fiction, historical, recount-of-war, truth, unity, unrest, war, warring, world
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    Susan Rowland
    “There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, insight, mystery, trauma
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    Max Nowaz
    “Some people say
    Rhyming is but a sin.
    Little sins are fun
    So try, before you bin.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Timbi's Dream
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    Barry Kirwan
    “A scream pierced the sky, a child’s, so loud he dropped his cup, his right hand ready to reach for a weapon that wasn’t there. A survival reflex from another city, another part of the world. He tried to relax, but the scream had been real. Not like the whining wail he loathed, not even the shocked cry of a kid who’d just hurt himself. This scream had mortal fear in it. After three tours in Afghanistan, he knew the difference.”
    ― Barry Kirwan, When the children come
    tags: action, adventure, suspense-thriller, thriller-novels
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    Karl Braungart
    “Gentlemen, how did the Tariq’Allah find out about the weapon? Was it from sources in the United States or Iraq?”
    ― Karl Braungart, Triple Deception
    tags: action, cia, detective, disappearance, dramatic, fast-paced, mystery, police, terrorist, traditional
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: description, language, power-of-words, words
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    James Clavell
    “Isn't it only laughter we can stay human?”
    ― James Clavell , Shōgun
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    Jane Austen
    “Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: love
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    William Shakespeare
    “Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for
    you and dote upon the exchange.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
    tags: love
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    Joseph Heller
    “The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live.”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
    tags: war
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    Thomas Paine
    “My own mind is my own church.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
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  • #14
    “Then a white flash swallowed the room.
    The blast lifted her from the bed.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, Secrets
    tags: bullying, emotionally-charged, humour, low-self-esteem, relationships, school, tense, toxic, unpredictable
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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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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “I knew I rode a rugged crest of turmoil that might crash on the rocky shore of irrational behavior.”
    ― 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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  • #17
    “To whomever swapped my tattoo cream for toothpaste........ well played.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: humour, humourous-situations, tattoo, tattoos
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    Frederick Forsyth
    “functionally”
    ― Frederick Forsyth, The Deceiver
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    Susanna Clarke
    “The beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
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    Ovid
    “Now I have finished my work, which nothing can ever destroy - not Jupiter's wrath, nor fire or sword, nor devouring time. That day which has power over nothing except this body of mine may come when it will and end the uncertain span of my life. But the finer part of myself shall sweep into eternity, higher than all of the stars. My name shall never be forgotten. Where-ever the might of Rome extends in the lands she has conquered, the people shall read and recite my words. Throughout all ages, if poets have vision to prophecy truth, I shall live in my fame.”
    ― Ovid, Metamorphoses
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Jamie: You know what I figured out today?
    Landon: What?
    Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
    tags: death-and-dying, inspirational, life, miracle
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    Michael Chabon
    “The fundamental purpose of storytelling is to pass the time, which is infinite, slow, and weighs heavy in our hands. When the first storyteller, having told the first story, fell silent, somebody sitting there by the fire said, "Then what happened?" and the Age of Sequels began.”
    ― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    tags: storytelling
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    Diane Setterfield
    “He turned from the daughters of minor aristocrats to those of farriers, farmers and foresters. Personally he couldn't tell the difference, yet the world seemed to mind less.”
    ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
    tags: love
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