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“Ranjana finds Stephen lying on an old string bed staring up at the ceiling and seeing in its myriad cracks the soothing drift of clouds. She puts what she’s brought to his lips, brushes them with her fingertips, and watches as he works the sweet onto his teeth. She feels a light touch on her arm encouraging her to lie next to him. She rests on her back, the pair of them laid out like two corpses waiting for the first shower of moist earth. After a while, she rolls over, nuzzles into his shoulder, and lets her hand fall limp and sweet across his chest. She drifts off to sleep, sweating in the arms of her lover.”
― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

tags: calcutta, culture, dundee, family, fiction-writing, human-history, india, love, lovers, period-drama

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#2

“Keep an open mind and try some new methods.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

tags: climate, four-seasons, gardening, harvest, harvesting, healthy-vegetable, plant-guide, seasons, sustainable

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#3

“Let me make two remarks. First I concentrate on the task ahead for 2016. I’m quite busy with that—thank you very much. And I’m looking with great interest in the American election campaign.’ For the second time during their press conference, the clicking sounds of the cameras was deafening.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

tags: admiration, democracy, emotional, obama, policy, research, respect, scandals, service

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#4

“You're not a Quaker, Jeremy. I happen to know you put beer on your cornflakes.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, scifi-adventure

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#5

“As Vice President of Acquisitions, Mr. Lang,” she asked. “Just what is it you are supposing to acquire?” At the very most, are you seeking a compliment in return? Of course, you are! Men are always hoping for what they seldom get.” With that, she reached up to kiss him on the cheek—the freight train of doom had passed him by on a parallel track. Doubt is good. It keeps the doors open to proof of promise. Is that why she had changed into that incredibly tantalizing little blue-black dress driving the Whaler bar crowd toward a frenzy?”
― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

tags: crime, destruction, drama, exciting, gripping, intense, legal, suspense, thriller

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#6

“Will they come if you whistle? If you can’t whistle loud enough, Teague here would be happy to help you out.”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

tags: dimensions, fiction-novel, science-fiction

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#7

“Purpose gives perspective to your pain and powers you through it. Without it, your pain can paralyze you.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: find-god, god-quotes, godly, love, self-awareness, self-love, spiritual-quotes, spiritualism, spirituality, wisdom

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#8

“Sure as hell doesn’t seem that Williams’ study and findings were general. This man talked from fact. I bet this is the scientist and study they want.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

tags: cia, cic, conditioned, deployment, military-intelligence, russia, soldiers, spies, spy

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#9

“It seemed as though he would never pull free, until he awoke one morning feeling kind of awkward, as though his hands had been lopped off by some Arabian sword during a routine druggie blackout, and in their place, pale and membranous hands that had been fit to his wrists by aliens that took him up while he slept and then brought him back down – all of it in an effort to help him move up to where he belonged in society.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: fiction, horror, humour, literary-fiction, paranormal, politics, sci-fi, science-fiction, short-stories

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#10

“The steps leading to the porch looked worn, cracked, and unpainted, ready for a nice hot fire.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#11

“When I look at people talking about intersectionality, what I see is the human being magnifying a biological attribute, and then putting them aside, putting them in a corner as victims of oppression....I most certainly don't see myself as a victim.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali

tags: identitypolitics, intersectional, intersectionality, liberalism, oppression, victimattitude, victimmentality

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#12

“The question of chemical residues on the food we eat is a hotly debated issue. The existence of such residues is either played down by the industry as unimportant or is flatly denied. Simultaneously, there is a strong tendency to brand as fanatics or cultists all who are so perverse as to demand that their food be free of insect poisons. In all this cloud of controversy, what are the actual facts?”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

tags: environmentalism, food-safety, insecticides

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#13

“When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.”
― William Faulkner

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#14

“Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them."

-Anne Shirley”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: books, friends, humor, reading, writing

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#15

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#16

“Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.”
― John Irving, In One Person

tags: loneliness, self-hatred

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