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#1

“Captain Scultetus said, “Sir, I am the commander of the Swakopmund Coast Guard. My name and rank are Captain Oskar Scultetus! I respectfully beg you not to open fire upon my city!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: australia, discovery, life-experiences, life-journey, living, love, nostalgia, self, soul, vietnam

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“Monstrous not just for what they were, but for what was done to them, as pitiable as Mary Shelly’s creation, as human and forlorn.”
― William Kely McClung, Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven

tags: conspire, courage, domination, exciting, exploration, fast-paced, fear, plots, sci-fi, treachery

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#3

“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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#4

“I don't want to be caught with my pants down.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: action, adventure, death, dystopian, life, literary-fiction, past, sci-fi, travel, witty

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#5

“Alas," murmured Poirot to his mustaches, "that one can only eat three times a day ...”
― Agatha Christie, Mrs. McGinty's Dead

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“I suddenly knew it wasn't only the wonderful luxury of being in love that had been buoying me up: deep down, in some vague, mixed up way I had been letting myself hope he didn't really care for her, that it was me he loved and that kissing me would have made him realise it. 'You're a fool and worse -' I told myself. 'You're a would-be thief.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: hoping, shoulda-woulda-coulda

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#7

“I do my best to simplify and refine, to be logical and harmonious. But I also try to keep an open mind, to listen to my intuition and allow for the unexpected, the coincidental, even the quirky to enter into my work. Ultimately, my aim is to entertain, and sometimes to enlighten, the child who still lives inside of me. This is always where I begin.

And just as in my boyhood, making pictures is how I express my truest feelings.”
― Eric Carle

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#8

“All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: atheism, equality, god, humanism, prophecy, religion, responsbility

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#9

“homosexual; no result. He had watched him with”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

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#10

“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body— the wishbone.”
― Robert Frost

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discovery
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soul
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