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#1

“He was sure people detested accountants; they were boring. In fact, he had put down his profession as an airline pilot on the form he had filled in for a dating agency. As an airline pilot you could be away just the right amount of time, when you needed a break from your love life, without facing awkward questions from her when you got back.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

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#2

“My Aspasia. With her, he’d discovered the sweetness in life . . . and she might like to know that. He’d tell her sometime. But he knew he’d given this lovely woman what she’d wanted most, their son’s name. He leaned over to the child. “So, you’re Little Pericles.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: action, drama, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, page-turner, politics, present

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#3

“If one does not react to gossip, the informer hushes more quickly.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery

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#4

“After iris-scanning was legally accepted as identity verification for drivers licenses, passports and so much more, anyone could securely log onto the Internet from any computer anywhere via such a scan.
Elections (much less air travel) have never been the same”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

tags: democracy, diplomacy, drama, fiction, historical-fiction, humour, influence, literary-fiction, policy, political-goals

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#5

“The relator is part tardigrade, part fungus and all supernatural. It’s a new species of life bred for one specific reason, to communicate with Time.”
― Frank Lambert, Ghost Doors

tags: drama, fantasy, fiction, ghost, paranormal, teen-ya, teenagers, urban, young-adult

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#6

“Silently she stared at the splintered pieces and felt the flame in her soul gutter. The flame she had nurtured since she was a child. The flame that had in it what little sparks of happiness she had ever known as well as all her hopes and dreams for the future. She had tended it so carefully and for so long, and in one, horrendous, agonizing second, felt it simply... go out.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: captivating, drama, fiction, fiction-writing, intrigue, literary-romance, romance

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#7

“He doesn't speak for a moment, as if the silence is the elastic that will bring his next words forward.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

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#8

“Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

tags: acculturation, continuity, innovation

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#9

“Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: inspirational, journalism, myth, story, truth-telling

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#10

“The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

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#11

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

tags: hell, resignation

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#12

“The natives have a way of putting it themselves: “the real world behind this one,” they call it, suggesting that what we see and understand of the surface world is but a façade, which they are capable of navigating beyond. And so it is that in living among them, such things as shape-shifters, talking bears, men turning into birds and flying, all seem somehow plausible.”
― Jim Fergus, The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill

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#13

“Some people say
Rhyming is but a sin.
Little sins are fun
So try, before you bin.”
― Max Nowaz, Timbi's Dream

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#14

“The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: war

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#15

“Ben and Freda were happy for Cindy. She had recovered from the horrible abuses she had suffered the previous year. Her last bad dream was over five months behind her. Her schoolwork was excellent, and her home and farm chores were done promptly without any supervision. Her face without a smile was a rare sight. Ben and Freda exchanged glances. Tears had slipped glistening over their eyes.”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

tags: change-maker, child-advocate, emotional-victory, leading-with-courage, life-s-miracles, national-prominence, pain-to-purpose, power-of-hope, spiritual-journey, standing-up-for-others

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#16

“Democracy is a pretty word. Democracy is a captivating magic. The oppressed classes always wanted and the oppressing ones always promised a democracy. But this was precisely for democracy that the both parts had always fought. The great French Revolution proclaimed the great appeal "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity". The history showed that from the class viewpoint, they could indicate different things, distinct contents; these concepts must be filled with different sense. In the class society, in the society locked in a state, Liberty is always at the top of somebody’s spear! Equality is the Achilles’ heel, into which this spear is plunged. Humanity is the pledge for plunging it by all force. ”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: abolition, capitalism, criticism, democratic, justice, marxism, monopoly, planned-capitalism, political-principles, sovereignty

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#17

“Decker smiled and shrugged off their laughter. The humour was only barbed if you sat on the outside, and now he was one of them.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: defiant, one-of-them

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#18

“Deliverance is not scary—it is the most beautiful, loving act of Jesus. It is the moment someone finally walks into the freedom that was always meant for them.”
― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

tags: destiny, focus, god, grow, learn, love, peace, spirit, teaching, views

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#19

“Now I see my children and I know that they are figures in a lantern show, that their sense of permanence is an illusion, because all around us time is unstoppable.”
― Sebastian Faulks, On Green Dolphin Street

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#20

“Tak, człowiek jest śmiertelny, ale to jeszcze pół biedy. Najgorsze, że to, iż jest śmiertelny, okazuje się niespodziewanie, w tym właśnie sęk!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

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#21

“I like it better here where I can sit just quietly and smell the flowers.”
― Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand

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#22

“I think of money only as a medium of exchange. In reality, money by itself has very little value. So as soon as I have money, I want to exchange it for something of real value. The irony is that many people who cling desperately to money spend that money on things of very little value—and that is why they are poor.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad's Guide to Investing

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#23

“A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him”
― Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

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#24

“History never repeats itself. Man always does.”
― Voltaire

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#25

“The Green Judges, most of them decidedly miffed, grumbled out one by one, though I got a wink and a thumbsup from Washington.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

tags: literarysatire, magicalrealism, memorable, mythicmodernity, weirdlit, wryhumor

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#26

“If you do something to benefit one person, that is an absolute gain, and its relative insignificance in the wider scheme is irrelevant. Benefit two people without concomitant harm to others - or a village, tribe, city, class, nation, society or civilisation - and the benefits are scalable, arithmetic. There is no excuse beyond fatalistic self-indulgence and sheer laziness for doing nothing.”
― Iain Banks, Transition

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#27

“And see ye not that braid braid road
That lies across that lily leven?
That is the path of wickedness
Though some call it the road to heaven”
― Walter Scott

tags: fairie, fairy, heaven, journey, road, thomas-the-rhymer-ballad, thomastherhymer, traditional, wickedness

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#28

“Sister's gone to school," I said to Sally.
"Ah," said Sally. "And will she come home again?”
― Shirley Jackson, Life Among the Savages

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