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    Kyle Keyes
    “Molly is not a Quaker, Jeremy. Quakers don't have tits that big.”
    ― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations
    tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, scifi-adventure
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    Douglas Weissman
    “She imagined all the mothers of the unnamed children, imagined the ad cut from the paper, a mother writing her child’s name at the bottom of the list to add their child to the names of those who would return home, those beautiful children who would never be forgotten, as if their child’s name needed to be on the list to be remembered—to have been disappeared. ”
    ― Douglas Weissman
    tags: adventure, depression, drama, family, fantasy, fiction, imagination, literary, pain
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    Claudia Clark
    “Then, in an unusual moment, she grew emotional, which left little doubt about the level of profound respect and admiration Merkel had for her American colleague:
    ‘So eight years are coming to a close.  This is the last visit of (President) Barack Obama to our country…I am very glad that he chose Germany as one of the stopovers on this trip…Thank you for the reliable friendship and partnership you demonstrated in very difficult hours of our relationship. So let me again pay tribute to what we’ve been able to achieve, to what we discussed, to what we were able to bring about in difficult hours.”
    ― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
    tags: calculation, european-history, goals, history, literary, marriage, personal-goals, relationships, speeches, women-in-politics
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    “Yet, the work was not complete. Next, citing Bond’s veranda and our subsequent construction of it as an example, Sanjit elaborated on the thought which he had previously teased, but not fully explained: that when a reader reads, the reader constructs a setting and world and is able to view themselves through this world. However, he also added that when we read, we are not only able to see our constructed world, but to evaluate our constructed world. This is how, Sanjit would argue, we influence and better ourselves, even if unintentionally; for by pausing and analyzing our constructions we may be able to identify our assumptions about people, places, or things. And it is in this way that books may be an expressed form of art, not just for the writer, but also for the reader.”
    ― Colin Phelan, The Local School
    tags: betterment, indian-education, journal, learning, life, personal-identity, poetry, soul, truths, value
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    Michael Tobert
    “The coolies pull them across Howrah bridge, which they share with cars, trucks, bullock carts, a party of young women in saris strolling in no hurry wearing bangles on their ankles, an elephant also in no hurry, and a cow that is lying down in the middle of the road chewing lazily a booklet entitled Dr W C Roy’s SPECIFIC FOR INSANITY. The camera pauses on a portion of the half-eaten text: “Dr Roy’s insanity medicine acted a charm. I am completely cured,” says Srinath Ghosh of Bundelkund. 5 rupees per phial.”
    ― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel
    tags: calcutta, dundee, family, future, heritage, history, insight, love, past, understanding
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    Tom Baldwin
    “Here I am, my genome, my signature, an encapsulation of myself, everything you need to know about me. If I match, I can be found.”
    ― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm
    tags: destruction, drama, exciting, fast-paced, gripping, intense, legal, legal-thrille, suspense
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    Charles Dowding
    “We are surrounded by forces that technology cannot yet measure.”
    ― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
    tags: advice, allotments, fruits, harvest, herbs, informative, organic, plants, tips, vegetables
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    Harvey Havel
    “At first, she bucked like a wild stag beneath me, and she tried to scream, but the pillow did a good job of muffling her voice.  Before long, the bucking stopped, and my wife’s corpse, blue without oxygen, appeared below me like a hideous phantom.”
    ― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
    tags: fantasy, horror, imaginative, literary-fiction, paranormal, politics, sci-fi, science-fiction, slasher
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    “Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on the screen, as Johnny Weissmuller arced through a canopy of trees boldly screaming his signature jungle call.”
    ― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
    tags: action, conflict, death, discovery, documented, drama, loyalty, nazis, politics, unity
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    Hubert Selby Jr.
    “Sorry Marion.”
    ― Hubert Selby
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “Thank you for helping my sister,” he says.
    I lean forward, mimicking his position. “I’m happy to.”
    Calliope leans out her window. “STOP FLIRTING AND GET BACK TO WORK.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door
    tags: calliope, cricket, flirt, funny, lola, lola-and-the-boy-next-door, stephanie-perkins, window
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    Tatiana de Rosnay
    “No one loved Paris better than a true Parisian. No one was prouder of his city than a true Parisian. No one was half so arrogant, so haughty, so conceited, and quite so irresistible. Why”
    ― Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key
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    Dorothy Allison
    “that the biggest part of the struggle as a child is about trying to believe you are not the monster you are being told you are. You need to know that you are a real person, that this thing happening to you is not something you are making happen—because when I was a child I thought I was doing it. I thought that if only I were a little better, a little smarter, a little meaner, a little faster, or maybe even a better Christian, none of those terrible things would be happening.”
    ― Dorothy Allison, Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature
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    Dodie Smith
    “Your pain and anger will pass, but the guilt would remain with you for always.”
    ― Dodie Smith, The 101 Dalmatians
    tags: guilt
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    Gregory David Roberts
    “Yes. You’re a good listener. That’s dangerous, because it’s so hard to resist. Being listened to—really listened to—is the second-best thing in the world.”
    ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
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