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    Yvonne Korshak
    “We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty years. An argument requires a measure of equality between those in the dispute and Samos is not the equal of Athens.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: ancient-athens, fiction, history, immersive, literature, love, military-campaigns, philosophical
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    Max Nowaz
    “He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
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    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, fictional, magical, realistic, suspense, thriller
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    Barbara Sontheimer
    “Only someone watching him closely like Celena would have noticed his intense preoccupation, and that something in a split second had happened to him.  She wondered where he had gone when he should have been listening to the sermon, where his soul had gone went it had left his body.”
    ― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
    tags: drama, fiction, historical-victorian-romance, history, intrigue, literary-romance, love, romance
    207 likes

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    “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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    K. Ritz
    “Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, humour, intrigue, literature, magic, mystery, sorcery
    850 likes

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    Nancy Omeara
    “Convincing all nations in the civilized world to agree that any investments into these corporations should be tax-free was not an easy task. Tea with the Queen didn’t quite cut it. Saki with the Japanese Prime Minister was pleasant, but not quite enough. We had to offer major trade concessions to our partner nations to bring them to the negotiating table. In retrospect, it was a small price to pay. The talks earned me the title of “The Great Negotiator.” I didn't mind.”
    ― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
    tags: diplomacy, entertaining, fast-read, government, literary-fiction, political-goals, satirical, succinct, witty
    83 likes

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    Frank Lambert
    “Staring at the wraith’s left hand, Zam saw a stump where its index finger should have been and knew then that the severed finger moving around in his pocket belonged to the wraith.”
    ― Frank Lambert, Xyz
    tags: disabled-hero, ghosts, horror, ya
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    E.B. White
    “In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.”
    ― E. B. White
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Home is behind, the world ahead,
    And there are many paths to tread
    Through shadows to the edge of night,
    Until the stars are all alight.
    Then world behind and home ahead,
    We'll wander back and home to bed.
    Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
    Away shall fade! Away shall fade!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    Günter Grass
    “By telling stories I...wanted to show...that that which is lost does not have to disappear without a trace. (Nobel Lecture 1999)”
    ― Gunter Grass
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    Émile Zola
    “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: art, calling, life
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    Laura Hillenbrand
    “Their hunger dimmed, an ominous sign. They had reached the last stage of starvation.”
    ― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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    Ralph Ellison
    “America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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