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#1

“Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

tags: action, dark, drama, enemies, espionage, fight, literary-fiction, mystery, survival, tense

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#2

“A culture that has a moral compass which always points toward the elite’s conception of good—or a society’s default conceptions of “good”—has a broken moral compass. Compasses have value because they point toward a single magnetic North, not a moving position.”
― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing

tags: agnosticism, atheism, cultural-reactor, fortifying, ideas, learning, life, mistakes, rebuilding, traditional-cultures

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#3

“Jeremiah has come to see life as a serious of motions he must enact towards its conclusion.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

tags: evocative, fiction, fiction-novel, herritage, historical, secrets, wisdom, witty, women-s-saga

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#4

“John F Kennedy (President Elect) was at the White house in order to confer with his predecessor Dwight Eisenhower. He was told to wait while the President of the United States of America attended to some necessary items. After a time, John was escorted into the Oval Office, and he found himself directly in front of the out-going president. So it was that the conversation between two of the most powerful men on earth began.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: documented, factual, indochina-war, insightful, recount-of-war, united, unity, unrest, warring, world

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#5

“Are dreams less real because they are temporary? Or are fleeting, moving, changing things examples of their own kind of reality, a different speed?…The sea is a dream.”
― Sally Ann Hunter, Transfigured Sea

tags: action-and-adventure, exploration, fantasy-fiction, fiction, interactions, life, past-issues, poems, poetic

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#6

“I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.”
― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd

tags: balance, irrational, rational, reason, unreason

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#7

“We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one”
― Voltaire

tags: drunk, happiness, looking-for

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#8

“In case I forget, know that I love you."
"I love you, too, Mom.”
― Lisa Genova, Still Alice

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#9

“The silence lasted precisely five seconds, during which time eyes roamed other eyes, several throats were cleared, and no one moved in his chair. It was as if a decision were being reached without discussion: evasion was to be avoided. Congressman Efrem Walters, out of the hills of Tennessee by way of the Yale Law Review, was not to be dismissed with facile circumlocution that dealt with the esoterica of clandestine manipulations. Bullshit was out.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity

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#10

“Happiness hates the timid! So does science!”
― EUGENE O'NEILL Strange Interlude

tags: happiness, science

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#11

“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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#12

“There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, insight, mystery, trauma

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#13

“We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delinaments, weight and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all.
I know, he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: grief

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#14

“Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.”
― Tamora Pierce, Sandry's Book

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#15

“You're on the Island of Conclusions. Make yourself at home. You're apt to be here for some time.'

'But how did we get here?' asked Milo, who was still a bit puzzled by being there at all.

'You jumped, of course.' explained Canby. 'That's the way most everyone gets here. It's really quite simple: every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not. It's such an easy trip to make that I've been here hundreds of times.'

'But this is such an unpleasant-looking place,' Milo remarked.

'Yes, that's true,' admitted Canby; 'it does look much better from a distance.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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#16

“He was a man of many doors. Were there other professions he nestled into, even briefly for an hour or two?”
― Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

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#17

“How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only?
For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'? ”
― Pablo Neruda

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#18

“As Aristocleia raised her cup to toast Xanthippus, her gown slipped from her shoulders, exquisite as Aphrodite’s, and flowed like the water that slid over her naked breasts when she allowed him to watch her bathe. It was wonderful to possess a gem of a woman. It made a man feel beautiful and godlike himself, briefly.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: 5th-century-bc, action, drama, enchantment, entertaining, fiction, literary-fiction, love, romance

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#19

“Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night.”
― Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

tags: danger, evil, fiction, fiction-novel, fight, insight, terror, thriller, unpredictable

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#20

“Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

tags: human-nature

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#21

“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.”
― Mario Puzo

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#22

“With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye. Now I was a grown-up.”
― Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis

tags: cigarette-humor

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#23

“From the side window smoke could be seen rising from the Westing house, but Sydelle Pulaski did not notice.”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

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#24

“If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

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#25

“But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on. ”
― Katherine Dunn

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