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  • #1
    Harvey Havel
    “He wasn’t sure if his parents would be proud that their child had served his country or not.  There had always been something unnatural about parents burying their children.”
    Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

  • #2
    Douglas Weissman
    “One by one, slow, quiet, with little more than a whispered end, Sofia snuffed the remaining candles. For every prayer she had that was never answered, she extinguished another light, another’s prayer, determined to take it back, to take them all back. ”
    Douglas Weissman, Life Between Seconds

  • #3
    Charles Dowding
    “The more you harvest, the quicker and easier it becomes”
    Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

  • #4
    Kyle Keyes
    “Your little buddy just gave me the greatest
       Christmas gift I've ever gotten.”
    Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

  • #5
    Max Nowaz
    “Being magnanimous in victory usually worked, but to keep abreast of the situation he had to 
pump the girl for all she knew. Was there a pang of remorse for his actions in his mind? 
Possibly, but what choice did he have? If he wanted to survive, he had no room for weakness.”
    Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

  • #6
    Gregory Dickow
    “Soul power ripples outward in all directions, affecting everything— physical health, emotional well-being, relationships, families, work, and destiny.”
    Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

  • #7
    Michael Tobert
    “Karṇa walks, his back is straight, he is lit up by his divine earings; yet his feet drag. He turns into an alley. His head droops and falls to his chest. He stops. Mist swirls around him, becomes motionless, parts. From between his ribs steps a young woman. Her eyes and face and tongue are brown like old blood and she is decked in old things and she wears upon her wrists two burnt black bracelets. She places the point of a knife under Karṇa’s chest plate and cuts, a gentle sawing motion, the blade moving beneath the skin, a slicing of the quick: nerves, blood vessels, sinews. I feel his pain; not a stab; it is insistent, enduring, but sharp nonetheless, as with any loss.”
    Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

  • #8
    “To reiterate: not all things need to be finished, and free reading is a prime example of this. Writing – or the composition of words which are intended to be read – just like painting, sculpting, or composing music, is a form of art. Typically, not all art is able to resonate with each and every viewer – or, in this case, reader. If we walk through a museum and see a boring painting, or listen to an album we don’t enjoy, we won’t keep staring at said painting, nor will we listen to the album. So, if we don’t like a book, if we aren’t learning from it, dreaming about it, enjoying its descriptions, pondering its messages, or whatever else may be redeeming about a specific book, why would we waste our time to “just finish it?” Sure, we may add another book to the list of books read, but is more always better?”
    Colin Phelan, The Local School

  • #9
    S.G. Blaise
    “It wasn’t a death stare--not for a few seconds at least.”
    S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

  • #10
    Primo Levi
    “Suicide is an act of man and not of the animal.”
    Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved

  • #11
    Bev Stout
    “He glared at her. "Aye, and you shall be the best cabin boy I have ever had or I will feed you to the sharks. Savvy?" He turned and stomped back to the
    ship”
    Bev Stout, Secrets of the Realm

  • #12
    Lemony Snicket
    “If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #13
    Malcolm X
    “No man has believed perfectly until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”
    Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  • #14
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.”
    Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

  • #15
    Nikolas Schreck
    “SILENCE you miserable cretins!”
    Nikolas Schreck

  • #16
    Robyn Arianrhod
    “I understand my parents quite well. They think of a wife as a man’s luxury, which he can afford only when he is making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of this view of the relationship between man and wife, because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a lifelong contract from the man because of her more favourable social rank . . . Which”
    Robyn Arianrhod, Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²

  • #17
    John Fowles
    “His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess this forever, therefore I am sad.”
    John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

  • #18
    Truman Capote
    “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
    Truman Capote

  • #19
    Joseph Conrad
    “Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear”
    Joseph Conrad

  • #20
    Andy Weir
    “All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!”
    Andy Weir, The Martian



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