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#1

“Journalism…is an unreliable aggregation of belief spaces.”
― Amy L. Bernstein, The Potrero Complex

tags: attitude, dark, fast-paced, fear, gripping, journalism, love, mysterious, mystery, romance

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#2

“The street outside is empty, lit only by a half moon; yet factory engines beat in the background and the working day is about to begin. Maggie steps out of the tenement and suddenly the street begins to fill with women, some running, some pulling their jackets around them, some lighting pipes, some, like Maggie herself, taking a pinch of snuff. From other tenements come other women, and soon all merge into one, like a herd of cattle off to market, clopping over the stone pavements and the cobbles, lowing with last night’s news.”
― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

tags: cultural, cultural-heritage, heritage, historical-fiction, history, multi-layered

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#3

“Thank you, Glenna, that means a . . .” Arrov says, and his voice trails off when he notices that the twins are busy combing the long fur on his forearms. “What are you two doing?!” “Just because you are a big blue giant,” Isa says, focused on her undertaking, “doesn’t mean you can stop taking care of your appearance.”
“This will help get rid of those horrible knots,” Bella adds, still administering the beauty regimen.”
― S.G. Blaise, True Teryn

tags: adventure, drama, dystopian, fantasy-novel, intergalactic, lies, magical, science, survival, wars

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#4

“ If they come—whoever they are—will sorely wish they hadn’t!”
― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

tags: destruction, drama, exciting, fast-paced, fiction, intense, legal, legal-thriller, lies, suspense

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#5

“Relax into your creativity. Allow your mind to paint the pictures of words and colors, images and lines, rhythm and melodies. Lean into your passion without strife and allow your heart to sing as you create. Share your gifts with the world as we all deserve to absorb the beauty and awes of art.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: barriers, be-proud, believe, chase-dreams, cherish, conquering, life, love, smile, soar

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#6

“Inside he was hurt. Not so much with Linda, but his failure to impress women generally with his abilities. There she was, an example: lending – no, giving –thirty thousand pounds to a smooth-talking old bastard, but she would not part with a penny to him after living with him for a year or more.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

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#7

“You're not a Quaker, Jeremy. I happen to know you put beer on your cornflakes.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, scifi-adventure

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#8

“Once inside my skull, my doctor added some salt, just to taste. He also poured some fruit into my skull – an apple, a pear, a few seedless grapes, and a ripe banana. He then used an electric blender set on its highest speed to create what he had termed ‘a yogurt parfait.’ After he finished blending the ingredients, he beckoned the other doctors and a few of the nurses to sample his new concoction.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: action, adult, complex, drama, fiction, literary-fiction, literary-short-stories, short-stories

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#9

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance

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#10

“What is Insulin?
Insulin is a hormone that allows the glucose (also called blood sugar) in your blood to get out of your bloodstream and into your cells for energy for whatever your current activity or inactivity is. If you have more glucose in your bloodstream than your current energy need, the excess is stored in your liver (called glycogen in its storage form). If your liver is full and you still have excess glucose in your bloodstream, the rest is stored as body fat around your butt, thighs, belly—and generally every place you don’t want it to be. ”
― Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer

tags: coach, glucose-control, guidance, learning, overweight, teaching, understanding, weight-control, weight-management

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#11

“The American generals could only think in terms of large armies and huge battles. They believed or hoped that an enemy who chose to hide in jungles and tunnels would quickly be flushed out by American fire-power and then die in open battle.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, war, war-recount

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#12

“God always gives us choices to make, our path or His path for our own sake.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye

tags: choices, kids-learning, right-path, soul, spirituality, teaching-children, wander, writer-awakening

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#13

“I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season. Unless”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven

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#14

“Columbine had one of the best academic reputations in the state; 80 percent of graduates headed on to degree programs. College dominated the conversation now: big fat acceptance packets and paper-thin rejection envelopes; last-minute campus visits to narrow down the finalists. It was time to commit to a university, write the deposit check, and start selecting first-semester classes. High school was essentially over.”
― Dave Cullen, Columbine

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#15

“Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

tags: education, knowledge, wisdom

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#16

“there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one's actions.”
― Iain Banks, Whit

tags: comfort, devils, fault, fear, responsibility, sin, the-devil

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#17

“Something my dad says...He says you end up marrying the one you don't understand. Then you spend the rest of your life trying.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

tags: marriage, spouse

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#18

“Is it still a fish cart when there’s no fish in it? When its false bottom is filled with children?”
― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

tags: action, adventure, fantasy, fiction, intrigue, love, mystery, teen-ya, urban-fantasy, wizardry

149 likes

#19

“I don't want to be caught with my pants down.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: action, adventure, death, dystopian, life, literary-fiction, past, sci-fi, travel, witty

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#20

“Why was I the Most Popular President Who Ever Lived?
I castrated the IRS, implemented the National Sales Tax (Fair Tax) and brought an end to parasitic government - all through the use of numbers, statistics. business metrics, graphs, pie charts, efficiency - in short - results.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

tags: america, american-history, discovery, fiction, historical-fiction, history, humour, satire, satirical, witty

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#21

“It was the fundamental bifurcation of the masses of human meat into two starkly opposite classes: the haves and the have-nots. The have-nots had barely anything. The haves had it all. The haves had everything except concern and compassion for the have-nots, who they regarded as little more than cockroaches.”
― 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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#22

“It had happened. Thucydides, his archrival, was a general. Glaucon, from his own tribe, was a general. And Pericles was no longer a general. He was just a citizen with one vote. And an idea”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: ancient-greece, conflict, greek-gods, historical-fiction, love-story, romance, spartans

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#23

“Susie, what shall I do - there is'nt room enough; not half enough, to hold what I was going to say. Wont you tell the man who makes sheets of paper, that I hav'nt the slightest respect for him!”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: humor, letter-writing

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#24

“Ignorance does not make you fireproof when the world is burning.”
― Nelou Keramati

tags: 2020, activism, climate-change, equality, george-floyd, ignorance, metoo, pandemics, quarantine, racism

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#25

“As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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#26

“Well,” Mrs. Plumber was saying decisively into the telephone, “I have discovered the secret of life.” Wow, thought Harriet. “My dear, it’s very simple, you just take to your bed. You just refuse to leave it for anything or anybody.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

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#27

“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”
― Karl Marx

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#28

“Louie grabbed the flare gun, loaded it, and fired. The flare shot straight at the bomber; for a moment, the men thought that it would hit the plane. But the flare missed, passing alongside the plane, making a fountain of red that looked huge from the raft. Louie reloaded and fired again. The plane turned sharply right. Louie fired two more flares, past the tail.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

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#29

“Enraged, Marco paced back and forth, gripping the newspaper in his fist. What do these animals hope to accomplish with senseless violence? We have enough suffering on this island. Do we have to kill each other, too?”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: class-disparity, cultural-fiction, feminism-in-history, inner-turmoil, lush, perseverance, political-struggle, real-estate, social-mobility, thought-provoking

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#30

“His mouth went dry and for a split second he had a metallic taste on the sides of his tongue. He stood, turned, and gulped. A vision had appeared from somewhere. Was she real? She was tall, with long, glossy light-gold hair surrounding a perfectly shaped face. The front of her silk white robe was open down to a delightful cleavage where a long silver cross hung. As she walked slowly past Alec to sit at the desk, the robe parted for a fleeting glimpse of her leg. A scent of lily of the valley meandered over him. A hand with long graceful fingers indicated for him to sit again in his chair. She was real!
She was, without doubt, the most beautiful woman Alec had ever seen.”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

tags: betrayal, church-murder, criminal-masterminds, detective-fiction, emotional-complexity, firsthand-accounts, love-and-loss, melancholy, refugees, symbolism

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