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  • #1
    “The blast of hot air lifted Tazeem from his feet and threw him onto his back in the road. He blinked up into the night sky; raindrops glowed orange as they fell towards the earth.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: descriptive-prose, explosion
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  • #2
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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  • #3
    Paul Auster
    “Bildiğim bir şey varsa oda karşılığını vermeden bir şey alamayacağınızdır, istediğiniz şey ne kadar büyükse karşılığında ödemeniz gereken bedel de o kadar büyük olur.”
    ― Paul Auster, Oracle Night
    tags: auster
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  • #4
    Poppy Z. Brite
    “With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood.”
    ― Poppy Z. Brite, Wormwood
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  • #5
    Marisha Pessl
    “You see, that priest—he was still there, hanging on, silently waiting at the perimeter. An oily shadow always around.”
    ― Marisha Pessl, Night Film
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  • #6
    William Golding
    “Ty naše schůze! A jak si na ně potrpíme! Každý den máme nějakou. Někdy i dvě. Všechno projednáme." ... "Vsadím se, že kdybych teď zatroubil na lasturu, byli by tu všichni jako na koni. Pak bychom náramně slavnostně porozprávěli a někdo by třeba navrhul, že si musíme postavit tryskáč nebo ponorku nebo televizi. A po schůzi by pět minut makali a pak by se rozutekli nebo by šli na hon.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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  • #7
    Italo Calvino
    “Suppose we received from another planet a message made up of pure facts, facts of such clarity as to be merely obvious: we wouldn't pay attention, we would hardly even notice; only a message containing something unexpressed, something doubtful and partially indecipherable, would break through the threshold of our consciousness and demand to be received and interpreted.”
    ― Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics
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  • #8
    José Saramago
    “يا إلهنا العزيز، ارحم رجالاً أنفقوا أعمارهم في تخيل الأشياء!!”
    ― José Saramago, The History of the Siege of Lisbon
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  • #9
    Allen Ginsberg
    “Trees scream and drop bright leaves”
    ― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
    tags: autumn-gold-new-england-fall
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  • #10
    Koushun Takami
    “But I'm willing to take a chance on believing there has to be a way. All I need is someone to believe with me.”
    ― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale, Vol. 01
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  • #11
    William Kely McClung
    “Of course it didn’t make sense… knowledge was finite, imagination was not.”
    ― William Kely McClung, Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven
    tags: action, ai-theme, drama, dystopian, machines, robotics, robots, sci-fi, science-fiction, technology
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  • #12
    Carolyn M. Bowen
    “Elpidio sensed that David had more to say but was holding back due to their friendship. He wondered why David had gone along with Emiliana's seemingly impulsive ideas.”
    ― Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller
    tags: adventure, excitement, exciting, fast-paced, fiction, friendship, full-on, gripping, intrigue, thrilling
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  • #13
    “To catch a wild animal, you have to use the right bait.
    What happens to the bait? I haven't decided yet.”
    ― March Lions, The Last Sunset
    tags: drama, fiction, future, humanity, invasion, mission, planets, revolution, science, secrets
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  • #14
    Yvonne Korshak
    “We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty years. An argument requires a measure of equality between those in the dispute and Samos is not the equal of Athens.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: ancient-athens, fiction, history, immersive, literature, love, military-campaigns, philosophical
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  • #15
    “Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: life, philosophical, philosophical-musings
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    Mark Z. Danielewski
    “The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest angel of all, the horror beyond all horrors, sits at last upon my chest, permanently enfolding me in its great covering wings, black as ink, veined in Bees' purple. A creature without a voice. A voice without a name. As immortal as my life. Come here at long last to summon the wind.”
    ― Mark Z. Danielewski
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  • #17
    Aimee Cabo Nikolov
    “#metooasachild”
    ― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
    tags: metooasachild
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  • #18
    Malcolm X
    “These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: black-nationalism, integration, mental-slavery
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  • #19
    Scott Westerfeld
    “There was something magic in their large perfect eyes, something that made you pay attention”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
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