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#1

“Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: editing, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writing

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#2

“Man is mortal, and as the professor so rightly said mortality can come so suddenly”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: man, mortality

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#3

“America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.”
― Allen Ginsberg

tags: lgbtq, poetry, political

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#4

“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: imagination, quality, skill, writers, writing

1281 likes

#5

“نولد،وفي لحظة ميلادنا كما لو كنا نوقع ميثاقا للحياة للأبد،لكن في يوم ما نسأل أنفسنا من وقع هذا الميثاق بالنيابة عنا”
― José Saramago, Seeing

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#6

“had come out and said—if not in so many words—that he was innocent of libel and that another truth existed. Precisely because she had not used the word “innocent,” his innocence”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

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#7

“Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously.
Disease is one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

”
― Susanna Kaysen

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#8

“For the record, there were no framed pictures of me around our house, and the only class portrait Dad had ever ordered was the one from Sparta Elementary in which I'd sat, knees glued together, in front of a background that looked like Yosemite, sporting pink overalls and a lazy eye. "This is classic," Dad said. "That they shamelessly send me an order form so I can pay $69.95 for prints large and small of a photo in which my daughter looks as if she just suffered a great blow to her head - it just shows you, we are simply strapped to a motorized assembly line moving through this country. We're supposed to pay out, shut up or get tossed in the rejects bin.”
― Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

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#9

“Oh, sorry, love. I was just getting out of the shower when I heard this loud commotion in front of my door.” Jake gave her a sloppy grin. “I didn’t realize there was a dress code when coming to the aid of a beautiful neighbor. I’ll keep it in mind for the next time I come running.”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

tags: fight, hardships, humorous-fiction, laugh-out-loud, literary-fiction, new-adult-fiction, reality, rom-com, sadness, uplifting

128 likes

#10

“Are you a student of Shakespeare?"
"He's been dead a long time, so not precisely, but who isn't?" she said.”
― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

tags: action-and-adventure-literature, action-packed, change, coming-of-age, fiction, literature, love, mountains, myth-and-legend-fiction, ya-fantasy

162 likes

#11

“Too pissed off to care, Aurelia interrupted him. "No, I will not wait just one moment!" Piercing him with her best scary stare, she said, "It surprises me that no one has pointed out your glaringly obvious agenda, so let me be the first.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: adventure, cult, death, drama, dystopian, fiction, future, romance, sci-fi

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#12

“On the end of my bed. He’s short, round and bald, with a tartan loin cloth, and what looks like a spout on the top of his head,’ Bryony said. ‘You flatter me,’ came the snide male voice. ‘But it’s a valve.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, coming-of-age, coming-of-age-fiction, engaging, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, occult, supernatural, young-adult

453 likes

#13

“I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,” laughed Adam. “We won’t have to dispose of the body. I’ll get a pan and brush in a minute and flush him down the toilet.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, magical, realistic, thriller, urban-fantasy

284 likes

#14

“Temples are for the gods,” Thucydides said. “No city has the hubris to put her own citizens on a temple.” Phidias promised, “The Athenians will look like gods.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: classical-struggles, family-life, hierarchy, historical, naval-battles, passion, political-intrigue, rebellion, romance

335 likes

#15

“Jake’s shirt and jeans gave off a business vibe with the hint of a wide range of corporate occupations from sales to IT. Only politicians and real estate agents wore a suit and tie these days. Dressed to push an agenda. A man wearing a two-piece suit and tie would be remembered and many people became guarded, sus of the wearer’s intention. Guarded meant memorable.
Blend into the environment; do not stick out.”
― Simon W. Clark, Dead Mercenary's Trail

tags: action, betrayal, conspiracy, covert, disguises, espionage, international-locations, political-thriller, spy-thriller, technothriller

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#16

“It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. When the consciousness we know as life ceases, I know that I shall still be part and parcel of the world.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

tags: zora-neale-hurston

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#17

“I am not plain, but I don't think anyone is ever going to call me beautiful. I don't have that graceful thing going on.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

tags: self-esteem-or-lack-thereof

58 likes

#18

“Garretson recalled that he drank four beers, smoked two joints,”
― Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter

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#19

“Love can be a very frightening thing.’ ‘That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”
― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

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#20

“One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.”
― Robert Musil

tags: conforming, conforming-and-attitude, conformity, fitting-in, immorality, individual-vs-society, morality, neurosis, neuroticism, societal-expectations, societal-norms

135 likes

#21

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance

1442 likes

#22

“He would at least be remembered in his cultures history books. Destroying two of his emperors revered structures, on the same day, would not go unmentioned.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Inara

tags: ai, artificial-intelligence, compelling, deep, future, humanity, sci-fi, science-fiction, suspense, thriller

93 likes

#23

“Wadsworth opened the bottle and handed me the cork. What the heck? What do I do now? Take it? Smell it? Lick it? A slight trickle of sweat ran down the nape of my neck as he, Margeaux and Deloris stared at me.
“Uh, what am I supposed to do with it?”
“Take a sniff, sir. Just to make sure.”
“Of course, of course.”
Smelled just fine to me and I looked up at him with a big silly grin on my face as he poured a small amount of wine into my glass. I stared up at him.
“Aren’t you going to fill my glass?”
“Take a sip, sir. Just to make sure.”
“Make sure of what?”
“That it is to your liking, sir.”
It was all I could do from turning red-faced. But I took that sip and smiled again. He then poured the wine into our glasses, nestled the bottle in the silver wine chiller and left. At that point I burst out laughing and my sweet ladies joined me.”
― Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge

tags: crime-fiction, crime-thriller, drama, pi

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#24

“Yep. God’s giving me a second chance at motherhood as a
“thank you” for killing a bunch of scumbags. He’s looking down and
thinking, “Well done, Susie. You’ll make a fine mommy.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

tags: fiction-writing, intrigue, suspense-thriller

71 likes

#25

“She yawns for men and not with her mouth. She weeps for men and not with her eyes. She drinks men down, she is a cave for men.”
― Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

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#26

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
― Rumi

tags: love

1187 likes

#27

“Any day that we are privileged to work at the chalk face is a good one," Van der Huffen replied dryly.
"We should pay the Department for the privilege," Bruce Smith, Head Teacher Creative Arts and Languages, replied.
"I believe that many of us have; the coin is sweat, fat, and tears.”
― Christine M Knight

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#28

“Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us.”
― Christopher Paolini Valdr

tags: brisingr, eldest, eragon, fantasy, inheritance-cycle, valdr

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#29

“On the black cotton was printed a white skull and crossbones - the skull head grinning as if he were mocking her. The nun struggled for her breath and wanted to drop the evil little banner, but her fingers wouldn't let go of it - making her stare into its horrid death face as if she were looking at her own end.”
― Victoria Dougherty, The Bone Church

tags: cold-war, historical-fiction, thriller, wwii

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#30

“Modern business-people and lawyers are, in fact, powerful sorcerers. The principal difference between them and tribal shamans is that modern lawyers tell far stranger tales.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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