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    “Movies were a great distraction from the everyday horrors in the newspapers or on the radio. Some of the most popular movies were in a dark, moody style. Others, like this one, were comedies that many preferred for relief from the unrelenting stress that came with the realities of a devastating war…”
    ― A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: Leave Murder to the Professionals
    tags: battlefield, brothers, chaos, conflict, corruption, danger, deeds, peace, soldier, technical
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    “I hate to break it to you, but this is the worst cast of Can’tflyitis I have ever seen.”
    ― Robert Agnello, The Glimmers Save Christmas
    tags: animals, children, children-s-fiction, connections, discovery, fiction, fun, hope, kids, kids-reading
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    Mark Ellis
    “Murder calls were never welcome, but this one had a small silver lining.it was going to get Merlin out of a sticky predicament.”
    ― Mark Ellis, Death of an Officer
    tags: army, british-empire, drama, dublin, epic, fact, fiction, suspense, trilogy
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  • #4
    Max Nowaz
    “You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, mystery, profound, trauma
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    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
    “There follows a description of one lorry collapsing into the river. … While the energetic and able Burmese drivers and their assistants were busy clearing away the debris I walked up to the village to seek the help of the Akyiwa and his villagers …
    …there was no going back. All worked cheerfully and with a will, Chinese, Indian, Kachin and Burmese. … From Shaduzup
    onwards the forest grew incredibly thick, and consequently the track was not sufficiently recovered from the rain to make the rest of our journey an easy one … Captain Gribble”
    ― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942
    tags: army-quotes, band-of-brothers, family, front-line, guns, love, loyalty, pilots
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    Theasa Tuohy
    “Flipping through, the first thing she came across was a restaurant menu featuring animals and rodents in a reference to the starvation of residents during the Siege of Paris of 1870-71 − horse soup, dog cutlets, ragout of cat, roast ostrich, fricassee of rats and mice? The French and their obsession with food presentation.”
    ― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth
    tags: climatic, drama, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, fiction, intrigue, mystery, tense, unpredictable
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    Graham Pryor
    “The answer to your first question is simple. The human race had become too dangerous. We are aware that the means for interstellar flight have been developed here on Earth, almost to the point of application. But we cannot allow this bellicose and destructive species to infect space beyond your own star system...”
    ― Graham Pryor, Cerberus
    tags: action-packed, aliens, compelling, dry, earth, fast-paced, humans, humour, intrigue, struggles
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  • #8
    “There is the land
    green and rising
    and there is the heart
    empty of longing,
    with room at last
    for silence.
     ”
    ― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
    tags: crossroads, explore, gratitude, journey, learn, life, opportunity, satisfaction, values, wander
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    William Golding
    “And dying is more natural than living, because what could be more unnatural than that panicstricken thing leaping and falling like a last flame beneath the ribs?”
    ― William Golding, The Spire
    tags: absurdity, death, life, naturality
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    Dashiell Hammett
    “You like Nick a lot, don't you, Nora?" Dorothy asked.
    "He's an old Greek fool, but I'm used to him."
    "Charles isn't a Greek name."
    "It's Charalambides," I explained. "When the old man came over, the mugg that put him through Ellis Island said Charalambides was too long...too much trouble to write... and whittled it down to Charles. It was all right with the old man; they could have called him X so they let him in.”
    ― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man
    tags: humor
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  • #11
    Tom Clancy
    “The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
    ― Tom Clancy
    tags: read
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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
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    Orson Scott Card
    “It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.”
    ― Orson Scott Card
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    Kyle Keyes
    “There is no universe per se. Nor is there a beginning, Big Bang or otherwise. We live in an energy field that recycles quarks, which format with given configurations, because they've done that before.”
    ― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations
    tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, scifi-adventure
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