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  • #1
    “Life is so outrageous I could not have imagined it, made all the
    sweeter because it cannot last. It is all about today. Today is the
    best day ever because tomorrow might not happen.”
    Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

  • #2
    M.R. Noble
    “she told me to be my own hero. Inside of all of us was the potential for greatness—all it took was a change in perspective.”
    M. R. Noble a, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes

  • #3
    Dean Mafako
    “One of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process, was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they needed someone like me to show them what can be done, together.”
    DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

  • #4
    Michael G. Kramer
    “Meanwhile, the British had announced that they would leave all British bases east of Suez. That cause great concern to the Prime Minister of Australia, Robert Menzies, who immediately went into discussion about this with cabinet ministers.”
    Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

  • #5
    A.R. Merrydew
    “So, you know that group up there in the Planetarium then?’ The pistol continued. ‘Hey they say it’s a small world.’
         ‘Are they alright?’ asked Semilla darting forward.
         ‘Yeah, they’re all fine, apart from the President he’s rather dead actually, oh and one of the lampposts I’m afraid he copped it too.’
         Baz’s beacon flickered with emotion. ‘Which one?’ he asked.
         ‘There was only one President as far as I know,’ said the pistol indifferently.”
    A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

  • #6
    James Herriot
    “He loved the stuff. But unfortunately he couldn’t say “Propamidine.” In fact nobody on the entire establishment could say it except Charlie the farm foreman and he only thought he could say it. He called it “Propopamide” but his lordship had the utmost faith in him.”
    James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small / All Things Bright and Beautiful / All Things Wise and Wonderful: Three James Herriot Classics

  • #7
    Louis de Bernières
    “He knew too much to be an optimist, and not enough to relieve his pessimism.”
    Louis de Bernières

  • #8
    Edwin A. Abbott
    “[S]uddenly the course of events was completely changed by one of those picturesque incidents which Statesmen ought never to neglect, often to anticipate, and sometimes perhaps to originate, because of the absurdly disproportionate power with which they appeal to the sympathies of the populace.”
    Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

  • #9
    Norton Juster
    “And, most important of all," added the Mathemagician, "here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it cannot do for you."
    He placed in Milo's breast pocket a small gleaming pencil which, except for the size, was much like his own.”
    Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

  • #10
    Nikolas Schreck
    “SILENCE you miserable cretins!”
    Nikolas Schreck

  • #11
    Donna Tartt
    “But one mustn't underestimate the primal appeal—to lose one's self, lose it utterly. And in losing it be born to the principle of continuous life, outside the prison of mortality and time.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History



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