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    Yarro Rai
    “Dear daughter,
    . . . . be ugly and eliminate those. Who judge you by your physical beauty!”
    ― Yarro Rai, Light and Shadow
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    “Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: christmas, life, musings, poisoned
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “A ray of sunlight poked through the mass of angry clouds.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood
    tags: action-packed, bloodshed, drama, fight, genetics, love, lovers, sci-fi, thrilling, war
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    Behcet Kaya
    “My initial impression of her had been totally wrong. The impression that she was this sweet and stunningly beautiful Vietnamese girl who had survived a difficult time in her life, and was, perhaps, still vulnerable. But, now it was different. She was nothing but a paid whore. It took me a moment to analyze it. Totally against my character, but I realized, if only for a fleeting instant, I wanted to take this whore to bed, even though there would be no spice of pursuit, and it would generate no particular tension between us.”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate
    tags: crime-fiction, murder-mystery, private-investigator
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    James Herriot
    “TO ANY CONSCIENTIOUS VETERINARY surgeon, killing a patient is a terrible thought. I am not talking about euthanasia, which is so often merciful, but of inadvertently killing when attempting to cure.”
    ― James Herriot, The Lord God Made Them All
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    Herman Melville
    “But this whole world is a preposterous one, with many preposterous people in it.”
    ― Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
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    Alan Weisman
    “And should biologic time run out and some plastics remain, there is always geologic time. “The upheavals and pressure will change it into something else. Just like trees buried in bogs a long time ago—the geologic process, not biodegradation, changed them into oil and coal. Maybe high concentrations of plastics will turn into something like that. Eventually, they will change. Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.”
    ― Alan Weisman, The World Without Us
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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    “The Muslim veil, the different sorts of masks and beaks and "burkas", are all gradations of mental slavery. (...) The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. (...)
    I felt anger that this subjugation is silently tolerated (...) by so many Western societies where the equality of sexes is legally enshrined.”
    ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations
    tags: subjugation-of-women-by-islam
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    Alan Brennert
    “Diedrichson looked at her a moment as if processing a foreign and generally unwanted thought—then, to her surprise, his frown up-ended itself into a smile.”
    ― Alan Brennert, Moloka'i
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    O. Henry
    “Don't run down your job, Aunt Liberty; you're all right, all right.”
    ― O. Henry, Sixes and Sevens
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    “Fair enough, that's what most people look for to begin with, but money can be a sliding scale, the more you have, the more you want, the more you need,' McBlane said as he sharpened the ash on the tip of his cigar into a point against the rim of the ashtray. It gave him the appearance of wielding a dagger as he gestured with his cigar holding hand.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: visual-moments
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  • #12
    “The smell changed before the light did: wet soil, rot, and something faintly metallic tucked under it all.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: Killer
    tags: adeventure, atmospheric, bookaesthetics, crimefiction, darkvibes, dead, drama, psychologicalthriller, sensorywriting, thriller
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning blow!” (Giap, 1990)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
    tags: american-army, commandos, defence, division, french-army, helpless, invasion, political, special-forces, war
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  • #14
    “The premiere was as exciting as the 1938 boxing match between Max Schmeling and Joe Lewis.”
    ― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime
    tags: drama, duke, fantasy, historical, history, love, revolution, title, travel, war
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    Max Nowaz
    “He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
     ”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, fictional, magical, realistic, suspense, thriller
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    H. Meadow Hopewell
    “Guilt often resembles shadows, playing games in the dark.”
    ― H. Meadow Hopewell, Rage Against the Machine
    tags: action, ai, betrayal, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, thriller
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  • #17
    “I’ve been at this a long time. The good guys don’t always win. You take what you can get...”
    ― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss
    tags: brink-of-collapse, dangerous, drama, dying, informant, justice, love, mystery-series, pi, verbally-abusive
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    Mark Ellis
    “One of them had something small and black in his hand that Johnson very much feared was  a gun. He was considering his options when he saw Goldberg’s head emerge above the latch door.”
    ― Mark Ellis, Death of an Officer
    tags: army, battles, death, determination, fighting, fighting-for-your-life, front-line, pilots, soldiers, veterans
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    Richard Bach
    “Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.”
    ― Richard Bach
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    John Hersey
    “A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one street-car instead of the next that spared him. And now each knows that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would see. At the time none of them knew anything.”
    ― John Hersey, Hiroshima [With Photos of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath]
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    Arthur Miller
    “HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit”
    ― Arthur Miller, The Crucible
    tags: intelligence
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    Rebecca Wells
    “These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.”
    ― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
    tags: family, glimmers, home, life, light, possessions, safety
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    David Sedaris
    “When visitors leave, I feel like an actor watching the audience file out of the theater, and it was no different with my sisters. The show over, Hugh and I returned to lesser versions of ourselves. We’re not a horrible couple, but we have our share of fights, the type that can start with a misplaced sock and suddenly be about everything. “I haven’t liked you since 2002,” he hissed during a recent argument over which airport security line was moving the fastest.”
    ― David Sedaris, Calypso
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    Anthony Burgess
    “Özgür irade ile seçilen kötülük, organize güçler tarafından kişiye dayatılan deterministik iyilikten daha mı insancadır ?”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
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