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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
    tags: war
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    “During class, make sure to actively participate and engage with the material. This shows that you are invested in the class and are eager to learn”
    ― Pilar Calvoz Cordón, Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University
    tags: academic-growthstudent-habits, class-participation, college-success, learning-mindset, nonfiction, study-tips
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    Lin Wilder
    “Eight, Rabban.” Simeon proceeded to list and define all eight words, focusing on philautia, unique to the Greek, meaning the love of oneself that is essential to the health of both mind and body.”
    ― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World
    tags: biblical-fiction, greek-language, historical-fiction, inner-health, learning, readers-who-love-words, self-love, thought-provoking, wisdom
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    Tricia Newlan
    “This shouldn’t be happening. I’ve spent many nights pushing aside my memories of her. But in the blink of an eye, here she is resetting my fantasies as if it were yesterday”
    ― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance
    tags: can-t-forget-her, emotional-romance, heart-vs-head, old-flame-energy, romance-readers, second-chance-romance, tension-on-sight, uninvited-feelings, yearning
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    “She learned to read and speak by reading all of the books in her library.”
    ― Coco Calvoz Cordon, Debbie Wants No Words
    tags: childrens-books, kids-books, learning-through-stories, library-books, literacy, love-of-reading, read-aloud
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    Max Nowaz
    “He was there on the space station on his own secret mission and was worried how dangerous it might be.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
    tags: high-stakes, page-turner, sci-fi-thriller, science-fiction, secret-mission, space-station, tension
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    John C. Waugh
    “forget what you know”
    ― John C. Waugh, busted haiku
    tags: fresh-start, micro-poetry, mindfulness, minimalist-poetry, poetry, poetry-lovers, reflective-reads, zen-vibes
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    Patricia Mather Parker
    “Sillyhead, Sam said. Are you kidding! You’ve been raised by pirates. Remember!”
    ― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode
    tags: adventure, book-quotes, fantasy, found-family, friendship, humor, middle-grade, pirates
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    JoDee Neathery
    “quotation from the poet Horace. “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”
    ― JoDee Neathery, Life in a Box
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    “Great Things Await Us”
    ― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean
    tags: encouragement, future-focus, hopeful-reads, keep-going, motivation, personal-growth, philosophical-fiction
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    J.L. Marrain
    “The world seemed to slow down.”
    ― J L MARRAIN, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder
    tags: adventure-readers, atmosphere, book-quotes, fantasy, immersive-reads, momentum, wonder
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    David Wroblewski
    “Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.”
    ― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
    tags: fate
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    Richard Yates
    “And all because, in a sentimentally lonely time long ago, she had found it easy and agreeable to believe whatever this one particular boy felt like saying, and to repay him for that pleasure by telling easy, agreeable lies of her own, until each was saying what the other most wanted to hear...”
    ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
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    Emma Donoghue
    “It occurs to Blanche that English doesn't have French's useful distinction between libre, meaning that something's unconstrained, and gratuit, meaning that it costs nothing. Free thought, free speech, free love: the English word that Arthur was so fond of obscures the price of things.”
    ― Emma Donoghue, Frog Music
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    William S. Burroughs
    “As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
    tags: burroughs, careers, writers
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    Naomi Klein
    “destabilized climate is the cost of deregulated, global capitalism, its unintended, yet unavoidable consequence.39”
    ― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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    Martin Heidegger
    “Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.”
    ― Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings
    tags: being, dwelling, language, man
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    Jennifer Wizbowski
    “It hardly felt real that she was gone, though the heavy pain Agata had carried for weeks reminded her, sitting like too many sweets in her stomach; that and the black fabric, the black everywhere.”
    ― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
    tags: coming-of-age, emotional-reads, grief, healing-journey, historical-fiction, loss, lyrical-prose
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    Rich DiSilvio
    “Remembering lies is a full-time job, one best to quit.”
    ― Rich DiSilvio
    tags: honest, integrity, lies, lying, truth, truthful
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    George Critchlow
    “The point is this: it is true that some people are very damaged. It is not true that they are all unsalvageable.”
    ― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege
    tags: criminal-justice, hope, human-change, psychology, redemption, reflective-reads, rehabilitation, second-chances, social-justice, trauma-informed
    51 likes

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    Joseph A. Anderson
    “Clarity of purpose often comes from wandering through mistakes”
    ― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b
    tags: am-writing, author-quotes, creative-process, fail-forward, growth-mindset, revision-life, writer-life, writers-of-instagram, writing-community, writing-quote
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    Anastasia Pash
    “Barcelona is the type of city where you can leave your accommodation in the morning and explore all day. On a typical day, you may be taking the subway, waiting in lines at busy tourist attractions, wandering through museums and romantic neighbourhoods, and sitting down for food and drinks at one of the many tapas bars before heading out to an upscale restaurant. Your outfits will work best if they can take you from day to night.”
    ― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules
    tags: barcelona, barcelona-quotes, female-travellers, travel, travel-writing
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    Max Nowaz
    “Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
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    Patricia Mather Parker
    “She lay in darkness so thick she could feel its pressure all around her.”
    ― Patricia Mather Parker, The Abode
    tags: adventure-reads, atmospheric, dark-fantasy-vibes, fantasy, fear, middle-grade, resilience, survival
    63 likes

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    Sara Pascoe
    “We think that the word 'boy' or the the word 'girl' says something about who a person is, who they will be. But that difference is much less dictated by the body they're born in than created by what we expect of them and how we treat each other.”
    ― Sara Pascoe
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    “I was scared to death of these chickens, but I tried not to let Ira know that.”
    ― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community
    tags: bravery, character-voice, coming-of-age, fish-out-of-water, humor, new-skills, ranch-life, relatable-reads
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    “Anyone who says "Trust me" is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: humour, life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, writer
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    Jon Scieszka
    “Your brain is doing some great work when it's laughing.”
    ― Jon Scieszka, Funny Business
    tags: humor
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett
    tags: a-little-princess
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    Ursula Hegi
    “High in the hazy sky, the snowfkakes looked tiny and all alike, but as they drifted past the narrow window of the sewing room, all were unique - long or round or triangular - as if they'd borrowed their shapes from the clouds they'd come from.”
    ― Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River
    tags: fiction, life-in-small-german-town, rise-of-nazis
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