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#1

“Once inside my skull, my doctor added some salt, just to taste. He also poured some fruit into my skull – an apple, a pear, a few seedless grapes, and a ripe banana. He then used an electric blender set on its highest speed to create what he had termed ‘a yogurt parfait.’ After he finished blending the ingredients, he beckoned the other doctors and a few of the nurses to sample his new concoction.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: action, adult, complex, drama, fiction, literary-fiction, literary-short-stories, short-stories

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#2

“My father was incredibly indecisive. As an example, take his wedding day. He couldn't decide where to sit in the getaway car, decide the fact he was supposed to be driving.”
― John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake

tags: bad-behaviour, behaviour, entertainment, fast-paced, fiction, hilarious, media-driven, social-media, society, witty

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#3

“ “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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#4

“Séamus’s eyebrows, like the antennae of the potato beetle but with a greater sense of grievance, poke forward as he delivers his first utterance of the morning.”
― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

tags: fiction, historical, scandals, secrets, survival, women-empowerment, women-s-saga

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#5

“Where did you see him?” Heidi asked.
“At the grocery store,” Mildred replied. “He was picking out a cantaloupe. Of course, I had to give him some tips. He was about to pick one that wasn’t anywhere near ripe.” The women tossed each other knowing looks.”
― Kirsten Fullmer, Problems at the Pub

tags: charming, cozy-mystery, humorous, romantic, secret-society, small-town-mystery, small-town-romance, witty

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#6

“Most weight-loss books are written by smart, well-intentioned people who read a lot of other weight-loss books and write their book based on their collected 2nd hand knowledge and their personal experience. Glucose Control Eating© is different. It’s based on over 40 years of empirical testing and over 85,000 tests on the impact of foods and drinks on weight. ”
― Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer

tags: body, control, diabetes, fats, free-foods, health, healthy-eating, live-life, live-longer, wellbeing

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#7

“Catching the wrong Fish is unrewarding.”
― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

tags: action, adventure, crime, drama, exciting, literary-fiction, past, romantic, suspicion

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#8

“Try things out, be happy to make mistakes, but above all have a go.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

tags: advice, climate, four-seasons, growing, helpful, how-to, informative, plant-guide, seasons, tips

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#9

“This assignment is my duty to perform for the US Army. My job is outside your command, my friend. You know my security clearance level remains the same. Copying the SCI is a safety measure, in case there is an electrical glitch. So, I believe we’ve talked enough about this subject. Agree?”
― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity

tags: classified, corps, lies, military, nuclear-waste, secrets, syria, tactics, us-v-corps

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#10

“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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#11

“It was here at the bottom of heaven, where the sun was whole and the clouds burned away to give hope back to the hopeless, where the snow fell full and comfortable, where the wind was silent, even if only for the moment, it was here, Peter found his bear and Claus found his boy, and the world held its breath—”
― Douglas Weissman, Life Between Seconds

tags: beautiful, dark, family-life, friendship, literature, lonliness, memories, reality, sadness, uplifting

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#12

“As I sat dumbfounded, seemingly paralyzed in my corner, resorting to my old, reliable strategy of scribbling when unsure of how to respond to Sanjit, Sanjit appended his counsel with a dose of silence – one reminiscent to that of a few days prior. The students looked upward and downward, fans to notes to pens to toes, outward and inward, peers to souls, and of course, toward the direction of the perceived elephant in the room, Sanjit’s books. Simultaneously, Sanjit confidently and patiently searched among the students before finding my eyes; once connected, the lesson moved forward.”
― Colin Phelan, The Local School

tags: betterment, indian-education, journal, learning, life, personal-identity, poetry, soul, truths, value

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#13

“Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

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#14

“...Our friend Nunheim was filled full of .32s just about an hour after he copped the sneak on us - deader'n hell. The pills look like they come from the same gun that cut down the Wolf dame. The experts are matching 'em up now. I guess he wishes he'd stayed and talked to us.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

tags: death, detective

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#15

“As we drew nearer we could see that the three men fishing seemed old and solemn-looking men. They sat on three chairs in the punt and watched intently their lines. And the red sunset threw a mystic light upon the waters and tinged with fire the towering woods and made a golden glory of the piled-up clouds. It was an hour of deep enchantment of ecstatic hope and longing. The little sail stood out against the purple sky the gloaming lay around us wrapping the world in rainbow shadows and behind us crept the night.

We seemed like knights of some old legend sailing across some mystic lake into the unknown realm of twilight unto the great land of the sunset.

We did not go into the realm of twilight we went slap into that punt where those three old men were fishing. We did not know what had happened at first because the sail shut out the view but from the nature of the language that rose up upon the evening air we gathered that we had come into the neighbourhood of human beings and that they were vexed and discontented.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

tags: mystic-light, punting, vexation

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#16

“Feeling secure regarding their happiness and welfare, she did not miss them except with an occasional, intense longing.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Stories

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#17

“You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ...”
― Malcolm X

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#18

“I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not occurred to me till reading your letter. It is, however, a great objection to this term that it cannot be used as a substantive governing a verb; and that this is a real objection I infer from H. Spencer continually using the words, natural selection.

(Letter to A. R. Wallace July 1866)”
― Charles Darwin

tags: agree, alfred-russel-wallace, biology, evolution, herbert-spencer, letter, natural-selection, science, spencer, survival-of-the-fittest, wallace

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#19

“I really like Matilda and that's not a clever book, is it? It's for children. But she's my favourite main character because she comes from an awful family and likes reading, like I do. Those special powers must've made her life a lot easier, though. She wouldn't be working in a pub at thirty-two.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

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#20

“It was then, that the most ridiculous idea in the entire history of the universe entered his cranium. He had absolutely no idea where it came from. He blinked several times, at the magnitude of its absurdity.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Inara

tags: ai, artificial-intelligence, compelling, deep, future, humanity, sci-fi, science-fiction, suspense, thriller

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#21

“Touching reality with divine love is the most profound act one can experience, connecting with souls and places beyond imagination.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

tags: beyondimagination, divinereality, soulconnection

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#22

“They can make all the plans they want but it doesn't mean I have to cooperate with them”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

tags: assassins, bangkok, crime-villas, explorer, occult, persecution, power, raw, travel-biographies-and-memoirs, true-crime

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#23

“The imbalance of power in the employee-employer relationship puts the onus on leaders to address fairness at work”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

tags: accountability, analysing, discover, empathy, engagement, rebuilding, retention, team-performance, trust, work

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#24

“You must find your dream...but no dream lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular dream.”
― Hermann Hesse

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#25

“All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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#26

“If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made. ”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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#27

“Solomon roared when his wrists were cinched roughly behind his back and the sack closed tightly around his head. His face hit the floor and sent his adrenaline into overdrive as he screamed through the material, squirming and grunting under the pressure between his shoulder blades. Fuck! He couldn't breathe! "Be still!" a gravelly voice nearly begged.”
― Lucian Bane, Desecrating Solomon II

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#28

“I don’t have a gun and I don’t have even one wife and my sentences tend to go on and on and on, with all this syntax in them. Ernest Hemingway would have died rather than have syntax. Or semicolons. I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after “semicolons,” and another one after “now.”

And another thing. Ernest Hemingway would have died rather than get old. And he did. He shot himself. A short sentence. Anything rather than a long sentence, a life sentence. Death sentences are short and very, very manly. Life sentences aren’t. They go on and on, all full of syntax and qualifying clauses and confusing references and getting old. And that brings up the real proof of what a mess I have made of being a man: I am not even young. Just about the time they finally started inventing women, I started getting old. And I went right on doing it. Shamelessly. I have allowed myself to get old and haven’t done one single thing about it, with a gun or anything.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

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#29

“remembered that, in his autobiography, Og had complained about Halliday’s sexist behavior toward Kira more than once. He wrote that Halliday always seemed to try to downplay Kira’s creative contribution to their games. Og once told an interviewer, “Jim always jokingly referred to Kira as Yoko, which infuriated me, because if we were Lennon and McCartney, then Kira was our George Harrison. She didn’t break up the Beatles. She was one of the Beatles! And without her help, we never would have had a single hit.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two

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#30

“I knew exactly what kind of effort I was going to need to get where I wanted to go.”
― Vernon Davis

tags: experiences, family, influence, journey, life, love, management, motivating, resilience, self-healing

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