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  • #1
    Larry Godwin
    “At those times when I’m weak, needy, and depressed, I must remember there’s someone who feels worse. To that person, I would appear whole.”
    Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

  • #2
    Isabeau Vollhardt
    “Pahadron glanced around. “No, dear,” he leaned into the open window, "I’m simply telling you to keep away from my sources of revenue, or the payment I’ll exact from the both of you will be more than you’re able to part with in comfort.” His smile vanished, his dark eyes glittered, and his meaning was quite clear to me.”
    Isabeau Vollhardt, The Casebook of Elisha Grey

  • #3
    Gary Edward Gedall
    “... the director explained to him, in that slow, simplified, style of language that one uses for the intellectually underprivileged,”
    Gary Edward Gedall

  • #4
    C. Toni Graham
    “You always have free will to choose your path.”
    C. Toni Graham, Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals

  • #5
    Barry Kirwan
    “Killed by our collective blindness. Not a great epitaph.”
    Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

  • #6
    Newton Lee
    “The enormous amount of financial resources and creative energy that nations have spent on wars and weapons could have been redirected to curing deadly diseases, feeding the hungry, eliminating poverty, promoting art and culture, investing in renewable clean energy, and solving a host of other important challenges facing humanity.”
    Newton Lee, Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness
    tags: peace, war

  • #7
    James W. Loewen
    “White mobs killed African Americans across the United States. Some of these events, like the 1919 Chicago riot, are well-known. Others, such as the 1921 riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in which whites dropped dynamite from airplanes onto a black ghetto, killing more than seventy-five people and destroying more than eleven hundred homes, have completely vanished from our history books.”
    James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

  • #8
    Alan Weisman
    “Al igual que nuestro pariente el chimpancé, siempre nos hemos matado unos a otros para disputarnos el territorio y las hembras, pero con el advenimiento de la esclavitud nos redujimos a nosotros mismos a algo nuevo: a un cultivo de exportación.”
    Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

  • #9
    George R.R. Martin
    “Every flight begins with a fall.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #10
    Emmuska Orczy
    “To understand is to forgive...”
    Emmuska Orczy, I Will Repay

  • #11
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Any injury we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.”
    Machiavelli, Niccolo, The Prince

  • #12
    Fredrik Backman
    “... not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside.”
    Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

  • #13
    Michael Shaara
    “There ought to be more than just that metallic end, and then silence, then the worms, and sometimes he believed, but just this moment he did not believe at all...there was nothing beyond the sound of the guns...not even silence, just an end.”
    Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

  • #14
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “It’s not faith you need. Only rationality.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

  • #15
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

  • #16
    Susanna Clarke
    “She spoke the language of the Scottish Highlands (which is like singing).”
    Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

  • #17
    Dalton Trumbo
    “He couldn’t see her face of course but he knew she was smiling.”
    Dalton Trumbo

  • #18
    Rebecca Skloot
    “THE SKY ABOVE northeast India looked like mango skin.”
    Rebecca Skloot, The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2015: Rebecca Skloot's Anthology of Award-Winning Essays on Our Planet's Challenges and Wonders

  • #19
    Stephenie Meyer
    “Life and love go on...”
    Stephenie Meyer, The Host

  • #20
    Richard  Adams
    “People who record birdsong generally do it very early--before six o'clock--if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.”
    Richard Adams, Watership Down

  • #21
    Miguel Ruiz
    “The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others, just to be accepted by others, rather than living our lives to please ourselves.”
    Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

  • #22
    Ian McEwan
    “Something has happened, hasn't it? ... It's like being up close to something so large you don't even see it. Even now, I'm not sure I can. But I know it's there.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement
    tags: love

  • #23
    Oliver Sacks
    “Music can have wonderful, formal, quasi-mathematical perfection, and it can have heartbreaking tenderness, poignancy, and beauty. But it does not have to have any 'meaning' whatever. One may recall music, give it the life of imagination simply because one likes it - this is reason enough. Or perhaps there may be no reason at all, as Rodolfo Llinas points out.”
    Oliver Sacks



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