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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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    Kate Rose
    “His own beliefs being simple in comparison; the God he was familiar with dished out regular and doubtless deserved punishment and every once in a while, took pity on him, moreover resembling a relationship he once had with his nursemaid. ”
    ― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary
    tags: compassion, fiction, fiction-writing, historical, love, self-discovery, self-love, understanding, women-s-fiction
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    William Kely McClung
    “She was overwhelmed with a premonition. Deja vu but from the future, looking back to this moment looking forward.”
    ― William Kely McClung, Black Fire
    tags: brutal, danger, destruction, graphic, horror, mystery, raw
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    “ome sea cucumbers have a transparent outer body, giving them an alien appearance. Laura feels transparent throughout her entire body.”
    ― Sally Ann Hunter, Transfigured Sea
    tags: action-and-adventure, emotion, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-writing, fiction-writing, memory, ocean, paranormal, poems, urban
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    Bryce Courtenay
    “Humans best survive when they are given a purpose; a common enemy to defeat, revenge to wreak or a dream to cling to.”
    ― Bryce Courtenay
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    tags: self-improvement
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    Robert Ludlum
    “odd-looking, rotund prelate was a marvelous raconteur,”
    ― Robert Ludlum, The Road to Gandolfo
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    Mark Bowden
    “And yet these Americans, with their helicopters and laser-guided weapons and shock-troop Rangers were going to somehow sort it out in a few weeks? Arrest Aidid and make it all better? They were trying to take down a clan, the most ancient and efficient social organization known to man. Didn’t the Americans realize that for every leader they arrested there were dozens of brothers, cousins, sons, and nephews to take his place? Setbacks just strengthened the clan’s resolve. Even if the Habr Gidr were somehow crippled or destroyed, wouldn’t that just elevate the next most powerful clan? Or did the Americans expect Somalia to suddenly sprout full-fledged Jeffersonian democracy?”
    ― Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: bad, charming, good, tedious
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    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “This is Indian country, isn’t it?” Laura said. “What did we come to their country for, if you don’t like them?”
    ― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie
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    “Okay then, the blood has dried into the shirt so as I cut it away, it may sting some as I pull it away. Can you be brave for me?”
    ― R. Gerry Fabian, Just Out Of Reach
    tags: 12-year-old-perspective, bittersweet, coming-of-age, family-dynamics, hope, humor, nostalgic, rural-landscapes, self-discovery, suburban-life
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    Kenneth Schmitt
    “To know our true essence, we need to leave all of the energy of low vibrations out of our consciousness. We must withdraw all of our life force from that realm, because it is parasitic. It has little life force of its own and cannot exist unless we give it life through our attention, imagination and emotions.”
    ― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness
    tags: electromagnetic-field, energy, quantum, quantum-theory, raise-vibration, relativity, self-identity, universal-law, vibrations
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    Candace L. Talmadge
    “Helen was lost and isolated, unable to participate with the rest of
    the group. She was outside the circle with no sense of any connection
    to a Creator, and no concept of what unconditional love might feel
    like. If any type of God had indeed created her, then that Deity had
    made a mistake too cruel to forgive.”
    ― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
    tags: adversaries, dark-forces, epic-fantasy, family-secrets, forbidden-love, heroine-s-journey, longing, magical-inheritance, survival, temples
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    Sara Pascoe
    “Love is described like GOD.”
    ― Sara Pascoe
    tags: aniaml, female-body, feminism, love
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “You sound like you’re enjoying my suffering.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow
    tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel
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    Lesley Glaister
    “Clem ground out her cigarette and immediately wished she hadn’t. It had felt like something live she could hold onto”
    ― Lesley Glaister, Blasted Things
    tags: drama, fiction, love, war, world-war
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    Nevil Shute
    “I cannot understand the reasoning of children. She said that she is glad that she has not got to say ‘Heil Hitler’ any more, because the Führer wears a moustache.”
    ― Nevil Shute, Pied Piper
    tags: humour, nazis, world-war-ii
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    Hilary Mantel
    “What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation, misunderstandings and twisted tales. Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
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    Anne Brontë
    “...is it likely my life all through will be so clouded? Is it not possible that God may hear my prayers, disperse these gloomy shadows, and grant me some beams of heaven’s sunshine yet? Will He entirely deny to me those blessings which are so freely given to others, who neither ask them nor acknowledge them when received? May I not still hope and trust?”
    ― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
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    Caleb Carr
    “The hateful relationship between Japheth Dury and his mother must, we reasoned, have spilled over into self-hatred, as well—for how could any boy despised by his mother fail to question his own worth?”
    ― Caleb Carr, The Alienist
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    Trevor Alan Foris
    “Passing through is fine; hanging around not so much.”
    ― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
    tags: different, exciting, fantasy, original, science-fiction, thrilling, unique
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    Malorie Blackman
    “That's just the way it is.
    Some things will never change.
    That's just the way it is.
    But you don't believe them.”
    ― Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses Graphic Novel
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