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“The verdict got both the fish and me off the hook.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“It was the tone of a woman who wrapped needles in silk.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

“The so-called “socialism” exceeded the mangiest recommendations of Keynes! Such a regulated state capitalism, such an intervention of the state in the economy like “socialism” does, Keynes had not even dreamed possible! The exceptional assistance of the state for the monopolies and their coalescence in a constitution—still after the receipt of Keynes! There is no better application of Keynes’s doctrine than the “socialism” of the twentieth century! Keynesian doctrine is an ideology of étatism, which strangely, was proclaimed as an essence of socialism! Keynes—the ideologist of the national debt, of the chronic budgetary deficit, and the inflation! His idea is the militarization of the economy, increasing workmen’s taxes, regulation of incomes through a “moderate inflation” in favor of the rich and the “solution” of the economic crises by regulation of the money circulation. All that was so well carried and applied in the “socialist” system that Keynes himself would have to wonder and to be proud of his “communist” disciples! Actually, Keynes, by observing the Soviet Union, had understood well the role of the state and the monopoly of the capital and sincerely recognized, by contrast with Stalin and the others after him, that they were used in a wonderful manner for the confirmation and for the perpetuation of the sovereignty of capitalism but not for its abolition. His “planned capitalism” is the same “planned socialism” of the twentieth century!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they'd been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real, like walking around in a desolate dream, but one he didn't want to wake up from.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“And as he went about arranging and as he sat talking there seemed something false about him and out of tune.Watching him unknown she said to herself there was no stability about him. He was when he was in one mood. And now he looked paltry and insignificant. There was nothing stable about him. Her husband had more manly dignity. At any rate he did not waft about with any wind. There was something evanescent about Morel she thought something shifting and false. He would never make sure ground for any woman to stand on. She despised him rather for his shrinking together getting smaller. Her husband at least was manly and when he was beaten gave in. but this other would never own to being beaten. He would shift round and round, get smaller.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

“valley”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

“The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale

“Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“My revolution is
Connection not consumption
Passion not profit
Orgasm not ownership
My revolution is of the earth and will come from her
For her because of her
It understands that every time we frack of drill
Or burn or violate the layers of her sacredness
We violate the soul of our future”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

“You know, I have a very bad reputation.”
― John Grisham, The Firm

“Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
― R.D. Ronald

“God has no other hands but ours”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

“A brand that feels human earns something no algorithm can replicate: trust”
― Warren Kornblum, Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won

“I looked at the face in front of me. ‘Adey?’  ‘Sorry mate. Time’s up!’ he said”
― Brian J. Twiddy, Blessing

“We’re so very sorry about this latest murder. Ignore Simon’s levity.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

“You must enjoy the time and make the most of the experience because time slips away and before you realize it your youth has passed, and you are old.”
― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

“We have you in common, so I guess misery loves company.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Mob Justice: A Scavenger Hunt Thriller

“Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.”
― Ovid

“But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.”
― Eugene O'Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night

“When all t'world goes one road, I go t'other.”
― James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small

“Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I don’t think he ever hung out with any of the employees after work or anything. When he talked, he was always going on about trees and nature and weird stuff like that. We all thought he was missing a few screws.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“And there is something in the young that rebels when life is made too strict, making us want to do most of all the very things denied to us.”
― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic