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    Todor Bombov
    “Like a gloomy and sinister paradox since its apparition until now, socialism suffered terrible and terrifying metamorphoses. With the name of the most human doctrine—Socialism—the most ominous and naughty crimes against humanity were done. The National Socialism of Hitler created Auschwitz and Majdanek and the People’s socialism of Stalin — Gulag and Kolima! And both of them buried more than fifty million people! That’s monstrous!”
    ― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
    tags: lower-class, monopoly, non-fiction, planned-capitalism, political-principles, social-equality, socialism, sovereignty, upper-class, ussr
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    “Her name wasn’t Jane. Not legally. But she wore it now like a uniform: plain, practical, invisible.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel
    tags: action, fantasy, fast-paced, intense, psychological, scary, supernatural, tense, thriller, uspense
    118 likes

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    Max Nowaz
    “Being magnanimous in victory usually worked, but to keep abreast of the situation he had to 
pump the girl for all she knew. Was there a pang of remorse for his actions in his mind? 
Possibly, but what choice did he have? If he wanted to survive, he had no room for weakness.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: action, dark, dark-humour, drama, fiction-writing, humour, mystery, thriller
    434 likes

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  • #4
    “The Bonaccorso brothers are serious muscle, though if they were any dumber they’d be dumber than rocks.”
    ― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss
    tags: black-market, destruction, dramatic, gambling, love, mob, murder, neo-noir, new-york, noir-fiction
    59 likes

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  • #5
    K. Ritz
    “At what point does faith become insanity?”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, dramatic, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, magic, mystery, past, wit
    862 likes

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  • #6
    “Human language is not the only form of communication and transmission of information and in some cases, it is not the most effective.”
    ― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean
    tags: beyondwords, deepreads, metaphysicalfiction, musicandenergy, spiritualfiction, thepythagorean, vibration
    78 likes

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  • #7
    Ashby Jones
    “
When he got to his feet, the miasma lingered. It came to Shane that he could never remove Jesse from his conscience because he would never be able to forgive himself if he did. Without question, there were some sins that could not be forgiven.”
    ― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird
    tags: guiltandgrace, historicalfiction, intensereads, moraldilemmas, readerswhofeeldeeply, warandaftermath
    210 likes

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  • #8
    Jerry Spinelli
    “Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.”
    ― Jerry Spinelli, Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself
    tags: disagreements, relationships
    36 likes

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  • #9
    V (formerly Eve Ensler)
    “I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends.”
    ― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues
    tags: inspirational, naming, words
    13 likes

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  • #10
    James Clavell
    “don’t wear”
    ― James Clavell, Shōgun
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    Abraham Verghese
    “He had become my poster boy, a walking testament to how will and belief can make up for lack of muscle, how anger can overcome blindness.”
    ― Abraham Verghese, My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
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  • #12
    Elizabeth George Speare
    “jesus”
    ― Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow
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