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  • #1
    “When first I arrived in the woods, I became aware of how unprepared I was for what I was about to experience." ”
    ― John-Paul Cernak, The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower
    tags: earth, environmental, generational, hippie, magic, mystery, native-american, natural-world, past-lives, unfaithfulness
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    Patrick G. Cox
    “That damned Hurker! He had the neck to suggest to me today that he could find a buyer for our plant—if he was made a partner!”
    “I hope you told him what to do with that suggestion!”
    “I did. Told him I wasn’t selling, but if he wanted to buy a share he should talk to my legal adviser.” Marcus straightened in his chair and wiped his hands across his face. “And he told me that I had forty eight hours to reconsider my answer, or shipping might prove very difficult—and that there would be some queries initiated over my use of a dome now owned by CalBank!”
    ― Patrick G Cox, First into the Fray
    tags: action, conflict, drama, espionage, fast-paced, imagination, sci-fi, science-fiction, super-hero, suspensful
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    Karen Hinton
    “In the back of my mind, I thought maybe I would find my Robert Redford in New Orleans. We made our way to the city by afternoon and planned to drive home when the sun rose over Lake Pontchartrain. We had no idea where else to go, except to Bourbon Street. We walked toward the bright lights and glowing colors of one strip club after another…. In 1975, Big Daddy’s was the top, topless go-go joint on Bourbon.”
    ― Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
    tags: coming-of-age, entertaining, glass-ceiling, human-weakness, karen-hinton, men, power, pros, women
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  • #4
    Karl Braungart
    “I am not familiar with your personal lives, except to know you are scientists representing Iran.”
    ― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity
    tags: action, army, biotechnology, desire, espionage, intelligence, military, suspense, terrorist, war
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  • #5
    Steven Decker
    “Everyone on Earth knows there’s no love as strong as a mother’s love. ”
    ― Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind
    tags: action, contemporary, drama, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, general, past, sci-fi
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  • #6
    Marissa Meyer
    “Oh, I fully intend to form an alliance with Luna.” Kai glanced at the cyborg foot again. “I just intend to put a different queen on the throne first.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Winter
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  • #7
    Trevor Alan Foris
    “You lost sight of what was important... and sometimes, to gain something you have to let something go.”
    ― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
    tags: different, exciting, fantasy, original, science-fiction, thrilling, unique
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  • #8
    Fred Gipson
    “pool herd” of their little separate bunches of steers and trailed them to the new cattle market at Abilene, Kansas.”
    ― Fred Gipson, Old Yeller
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  • #9
    Dalton Trumbo
    “Then I'll wake up and I’ll be with you and I’ll never leave or be afraid or dream again. Oh no. I can’t. I can’t stand it. Scream. Move. Shake something. Make a noise any noise. I can’t stand it. Oh no no no. Please I can’t. Please no. Somebody come. Help me. I can’t lie here forever like this until maybe years from now I die. I can’t. Nobody can. It isn’t possible. I can’t breathe but I’m breathing. I’m so scared I can’t think but I’m thinking. Oh please please no. No no. It isn’t me. Help me. It can’t be me. Not me. No no no. Oh please oh oh please. No no no please no. Please. Not me.”
    ― Dalton Trumbo
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    Bret Easton Ellis
    “I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip. ”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis
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  • #11
    Therisa Peimer
    “Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" 
    "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?”
    ― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
    tags: dystopian, fantasy, fiction, fight, gripping, literary-fiction, love, mystery, sci-fi-romance, war
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  • #12
    Sara Pascoe
    “The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: action, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, historical-fantasy, magic, thriller, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal
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  • #13
    Mark Bowden
    “Snuffies didn’t bug out, and they didn’t write shit about you, either.”
    ― Mark Bowden, Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
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    Oscar Wilde
    “How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Though surnamed the Wise, he was not immune from the occupational disease of rulers: overestimation of their capacity to control events. No”
    ― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Tak, człowiek jest śmiertelny, ale to jeszcze pół biedy. Najgorsze, że to, iż jest śmiertelny, okazuje się niespodziewanie, w tym właśnie sęk!”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
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  • #17
    Charles Dickens
    “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
    ― Charles Dickens
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  • #18
    Thomas Mann
    “…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.”
    ― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
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    Philip Gourevitch
    “In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%) or Twa (1%). The identity cards made it virtually impossible for Hutus to become Tutsis, and permitted the Belgians to perfect the administration of an apartheid system rooted in the myth of Tutsi superiority… Whatever Hutu and Tutsi identity may have stood for in the pre-colonial state no longer mattered; the Belgians had made ‘ethnicity’ the defining feature of Rwandan existence.”
    ― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
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  • #20
    Alan Weisman
    “Aunque ya han aparecido plásticos realmente biodegradables derivados de azúcares vegetales naturales, así como un poliéster igualmente biodegradable hecho a base de bacterias, las probabilidades de que estos reemplacen a los originales derivados del petróleo no son muchas.”
    ― Alan Weisman, The World Without Us
    tags: ambiente, civilizacion, contaminacion, eco, extincion, plastico, sustentabilidad
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  • #21
    Aimee Cabo Nikolov
    “Love is the Answer, God is the Cure!”
    ― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure
    tags: inspirational, love, self-help, survivor
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  • #22
    Salman Rushdie
    “It had been more than a year since the Joker’s conquest of America and we were all still in shock and going through the stages of grief but now we needed to come together and set love and beauty and solidarity and friendship against the monstrous forces that faced us. Humanity was the only answer to the cartoon. I had no plan except love. I hoped another plan might emerge in time but for now there was only holding each other tightly and passing strength to each other, body to body, mouth to mouth, spirit to spirit, me to you.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, The Golden House
    tags: donald-trump-as-the-joker, election-year-2016, election-year-2018, election-year-2020, human-unity, literature-of-reistance, love, political-satire, quotes-for-new-year-2018
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