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    William Kely McClung
    “The same First Amendment that gave people the right for thoughtful discourse with radically differing views, gave people the right to say all the stupid shit they wanted, and the Second, the means if not the guidance, to protect the first and a reason to pay attention.”
    ― William Kely McClung, LOOP
    tags: ai, apocalypse, drama, fiction, harrowing, horror, nail-biting, paranoiae, survival, technology
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    Simone Collins
    “People experience anger when their expectations around how they should be treated don’t align with their actual treatment (or when they expect a thing to happen based on some series of actions and it does not happen).”
    ― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing
    tags: better-future, culture, cultures, diversity, environmentalists, fertility-decline, human-nature, humanity, population-decline, preserve
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    Anne Michaud
    “The Profumo Affair in 1963 profoundly altered British society. It gave lie to the belief that those born into the ruling class were inherently superior and destined to lead.”
    ― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives
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    Milan Kordestani
    “Intellectual honesty means pursuing the truth regardless of whether or not it serves your interests or goals.”
    ― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World
    tags: civil-disclosure, connection, conversions, divides, houghtful, improvement, inspiring, practical-tools, respectful, social-skills
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    Malcolm Collins
    “There are four steps to gaining ownership and intentionality over your personal identity and beliefs: Determining your objective function What is the purpose of my life? Determining your ideological tree How do I best fulfill that purpose? Determining your personal identity Who do I want to be? Determining your public identity How do I want others to think of me?”
    ― Malcolm Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Life: A Guide to Creating Your Own Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions
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    Günter Grass
    “thaler”
    ― Günter Grass, The Tin Drum
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Senior year. And then life. Maybe that's the way it worked. High school was just a prologue to the real novel. Everybody got to write you -- but when you graduated, you got to write yourself. At graduation you got to collect your teacher's pens and your parents' pens and you got your own pen. And you could do all the writing. Yeah. Wouldn't that be sweet?”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Émile Zola
    “Respectable people... What bastards!”
    ― Émile Zola, The Belly of Paris
    tags: respectability
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    Victoria Aveyard
    “I’m starting to think you like prisons,” he says, idling knocking his knuckles against the wall. “And that you have the worst taste in men.”
    ― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword
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    John Rachel
    “Violence was a slippery slope, lubricated by a lot of blood, if history had any lessons to teach.”
    ― John Rachel, Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun
    tags: drug-cartels, drug-trafficking, haruki-murakami, intrigue, japan, kenya, mystery-thriller, nigeria, true-crime, uganda
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  • #11
    “He sounds like a politician running for office.”
    ― March Lions, The Last Sunset
    tags: action-packed, alien-invasion, alien-spacecraft, aliens, compelling, earth, fast-paced, galaxy, humans, struggles
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    Chad Boudreaux
    “Amanda, still thinking more about Harry Mize than the issues before the committee, lunged forward and snatched the note from Kershing’s hand. After reading it, she stood up and walked out of the hearing, leaving the receipt on her chair. Rick glanced up as she walked out. Then, he picked up his receipt and read Kershing’s words. Get the trucks in position. It’s time to go.”
    ― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
    tags: fast-paced, government, mysterious, mystery, page-turner, plot-driven, thriller, u-s-justice
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    Yvonne Korshak
    “The water far below was black in the shadow of the ship. A plank creaked. She froze. No noisy jump. It would have to be a dive. Head down into darkness. She’d never dived at night.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: ancient-athens, fiction, golden-age, history, immersive, literature, love, military-campaigns, treacherous
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    Andri E. Elia
    “Ketal is not hell! It’s the K’tul homeworld. What is the difference?”
    ― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
    tags: action-and-adventure, adventure, fantasy-adventure, fiction-writing, love, magical, mystery, sci-fi, universe
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    Nancy Omeara
    “How did I become President?
    I began by setting an example, hanging out my own dirty laundry in front of Village Earth right from the start. Every ugly little life secret became a matter of public record. Of course, that included sordid love-life details.”
    ― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
    tags: culture, democracy, drama, educational, fiction, fictional-drama, fictional-narratives, historical-fiction, historical-research
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    John Berendt
    “Death in Venice, The Wings of the Dove, The Aspern Papers, Don’t Look Now, Summertime, Across the River and Into the Trees, The Comfort of Strangers.”
    ― John Berendt, The City of Falling Angels
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    Cassandra Clare
    “No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
    tags: brb-crying, cassandra-clare, clockwork-princess, death, dying, i-can-t-even, mortality, omg-my-feels, the-infernal-devices
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    Daniel Quinn
    “Language developed because it conferred advantages. It didn't have to confer only one advantage. Language ability made you valuable as a hunting partner - therefore it also made you valuable as a mate. Language ability meant you were both more likely to survive and more likely to reproduce. [...] We became human not just by hunting but by hunting and talking.”
    ― Daniel Quinn, The Story of B
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    Christopher Moore
    “Author's Warning

    If you're buying this book as a gift for your grandma or a kid, you should be aware that it contains cusswords as well as tasteful depictions of cannibalism and people in their forties having sex. Don't blame me. I told you.”
    ― Christopher moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
    tags: comedy
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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    Fynn
    “Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.”
    ― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna
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