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    Susan Rowland
    “He says it was tourists being careless, where I see a fiendishly clever murder attempt.”
    “Mr. McCarthy, you’d better explain.”
    “Patrick, please. You’ll be tempted to laugh. It was a banana skin.”
    ― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds
    tags: betrayal, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, murder-mystery, mystery, noir-mystery, suspense
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    Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
    “Fairness isn’t about charity. It’s smart business.”
    ― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
    tags: academic, bias, chemistry, emotional-intelligence, grounded, power-balance, relationship, research, teamwork, workplace-norms
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    Max Nowaz
    “You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, mystery, profound, trauma
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    A.R. Merrydew
    “I see you made it Jack,’ he started to say, noticing a silver sphere roll across the loading bay floor. It stopped just short of his shoes before it exploded.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
    tags: ai-mainframe, destruction, drama, dramatic, earth, fast-paced, human-evolution, machines, science, trilogy
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    Susan Cain
    “Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we’ve turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.”
    ― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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    Annie Proulx
    “As she spoke she changed in some provocative way, seemed suddenly drenched in eroticism as a diver rising out of a pool gleams like chrome with a sheet of unbroken water for a fractional moment.”
    ― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
    tags: analogy, eroticism, provocative, simile
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    Oliver Sacks
    “Dialogue launches language, the mind, but once it is launched we develop a new power, “inner speech,” and it is this that is indispensable for our further development,”
    ― Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Cassian leaned to whisper in her ear, “The first time I saw that look on your face, you were still human. Still human, and I nearly went to my knees before you.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames
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  • #9
    Philip K. Dick
    “Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “I hate dialect. It gets in the way. If there is a need for dialect, you can render it quite easily by reproducing the rythm of that form of speech. Then you don't need to bother with silly spellings”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Reflections: On the Magic of Writing
    tags: diana-wynne-jones, writing, writing-advice
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  • #11
    “Ruth, do what you must to keep our family out of harm’s way.”
    ― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime
    tags: action, drama, exciting, fast-paced, fiction, honour, military, powerful, revenge, war
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  • #12
    Gary Clemenceau
    “Gray-matter auditors stepped in and shut down my eyes, confiscated my keys.”
    ― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity
    tags: auditors, corporategreed, officesatire, oneliners, sharethis, surrealnoir, weirdlit
    92 likes

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  • #13
    “Listen, you might as well learn now that life’s nothin’ but a dirt sandwich and save yourself a lot of time.”
    ― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted
    tags: action, detective, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, noir-mystery, pi, private-investigation
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  • #14
    “He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they'd been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real, like walking around in a desolate dream, but one he didn't want to wake up from.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: alone, melancholy, reflection
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    Max Nowaz
    “I wanted to thank you for saving my life. I am still puzzled about your motives
though. Was it revenge against Zedan for rejecting you?”
“You insult me. It seems that you think of everybody in the same lowly terms you
think of yourself. If there is anybody I should hate for Zedan rejecting me, it should be
you. He was only doing what is expected of him in our society.”
“You mean you don't hate me?” This was a new revelation to Brown. It worried him.
He was used to hate, he could deal with it, but this he could not understand, he had used
the girl ruthlessly and yet she did not hate him.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: action, action-and-adventure, action-thriller, favourite-books, suspense, thriller, thriller-writing
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    Todor Bombov
    “There is no word that admits of more various significations, and has made more varied impressions on the human mind, than that of liberty.” (Montesquieu) In order to exist, liberty and justice in a society, there should be equality in this society before them and together with them. Only then can we speak of humanism. Only socially equal personalities are free. And only free and equal in rights personalities could “love each other like brothers.”
    ― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
    tags: communism, east-europe, effective, historical, oppressive-regime, regime, society, totalitarian-government, totalitarian-system, ussr
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    H. Meadow Hopewell
    “When we cross the threshold of good to evil, we become deranged.”
    ― H. Meadow Hopewell, Rage Against the Machine
    tags: action-packed, ai, apocalyptic, dystopian, killer-creatures, military, sci-fi, technology, terrifying, thriller
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “By giving our former enemy, the pagan funeral of his ancestors, we are also respecting these people with whom we shall come together over time and forge a new nation and people!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, Full Story of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion
    tags: culture, historicalsaga, medievalbritain, nationbuilding, origins, reconciliation, thoughtprovoking
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  • #19
    “Time was being stripped from her one second at a time.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel
    tags: drama, dramatic, fiction, funny, heartwarming, insight, intrigue, sad, thought-provoking, thriller
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    Wilkie Collins
    “If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.”
    ― Wilkie Collins, I Say No
    tags: chocolate, food, marriage
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  • #21
    Nick Hornby
    “That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.”
    ― Nick Hornby, About a Boy
    tags: growing-up, irony, life, mothers, people
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  • #22
    Robert Frost
    “We love the things we love for what they are.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: love, poetry
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    Max Brooks
    “After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.”
    ― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    tags: blame, pride
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  • #24
    Stephen Crane
    “from all parts and were”
    ― Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (Annotated) Characters Analysis,Themes, Motifs,Symbols&Study Questions
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