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#1

“The Wallace-Ali relationship reflects the great mythic “hero’s journey.” Wallace might be seen as the Mentor/Wise Old Man, Ali as the naïve young hero who grows as the story evolves.”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

tags: aide, awareness, birds, challenging, emotions, help, insight, perceptions, raw, reflective

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#2

“Choose joy.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: community, faith, health, mental-health, physical-ailments, post-transplant, spiritual-health, transition, transplant

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#3

“We’re having another meeting tonight, if you can come,” Yaakov said. “The soldiers are watching the village very closely,” she said, speaking in a whisper. “They are on the lookout for anyone who might be involved in organizing.”
Arguments continued in all corners of the room. One man vehemently warned, “Anyone involved in advancing reforms or revolution against the government could face prison or a firing squad.”
― Beverly Magid, Sown in Tears: A Historical Novel of Love and Struggle

tags: fiction, fiction-writing, historical-romance, love, romance, self-discovery, understanding, women-s-fiction

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#4

“Something must have gone awry with the programming. I have no idea where or when we are.”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

tags: action, adventure, drama, fiction, future, literary-fiction, metaphysical, past, sci-fi, science

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#5

“The man more closely resembled a bear than a beggar. He was huge, with a full red beard and a mane of red hair. He entered the cottage without bothering to knock, and as he did so the cottage was illuminated for a moment by an intense red glow. It was just as in Raimund’s dreams.”
― Robert Reid, The Thief

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

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#6

“The Profumo Affair in 1963 profoundly altered British society. It gave lie to the belief that those born into the ruling class were inherently superior and destined to lead.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

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#7

“The enemy has setups, but we have God’s Word and His promises and principles to fight the good fight of faith.”
― John Ramirez, Conquer Your Deliverance: How to Live a Life of Total Freedom

tags: biblical, christ, christian, christian-spiritual-growth, christianity, deliverance-from-evil, faith-in-god, spiritual, spiritual-freedom, spiritual-welfare

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#8

“To him, it is the right of a man to be a man, and not a brute; the right to call the wife of his bosom his wife, and to protect her from lawless violence; the right to protect and educate his child; the right to have a home of his own, a religion of his own, a character of his own, unsubject to the will of another.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

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#9

“A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it. In a world that increasingly obsesses over the gods of power, money, and fame, a journalist and a writer must remain detached, like a bird on a rail, watching, noting, probing, commenting, but never joining. In short, an outsider.”
― Frederick Forsyth

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#10

“She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

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#11

“Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.”
― George Eliot

tags: middlemarch

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#12

“and the horticulturalists really believed that gardening would save the world that agriculture was destroying.”
― Jane Smiley, Moo

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