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    A.R. Merrydew
    “Semilla’s Phlegm-O-Matic promptly made an observation. ‘Wow Semilla look at that shuttle.’
         ‘Keep your voice down Raymond we’re in danger,’ Semilla hissed.
         ‘Raymond?’ Burt said incredulously.
         ‘I had to give him a name, didn’t I?”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange
    tags: colonies, colony, creature, fiction, gripping, humour, mystery, planets, sci-fi, weapons
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    Claudia Clark
    “At one point, approximately halfway through her remarks, Merkel stated in German something about ‘being able to greet the president of the United States of America, Barack Obama,’ and an overly ambitious Obama, who perhaps thought that was his cue, headed toward the podium.  Perhaps catching the president’s movement out of the corner of her eye, Merkel thought quickly, and without even looking up from her notes, she told the excited American president, in English, ‘Not yet, dear Mr. President, dear Barack Obama.’ Obama sheepishly returned to his seat to allow the chancellor to finish her speech.”
    ― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
    tags: american-history, diplomacy, european-history, history, international, literary, politics, speeches, women-in-politics
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    “Everyone knows that Africa is not reasonable place but if we can get
across that neither are we, we strengthen the bond with the continent.
People are not conscious beings, just ask any marketer. Irrationality
of the early explorers, irrationality of the new ones, irrationality
of the place we go into. What a great canvas we have to paint on...”
    ― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever
    tags: africa, awareness, biography, explore, fascination, insight, memoir, raw, reflective, wild
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    Dean Mafako
    “I reached and grabbed ahold of the garden rake that was leaned up against the tree, when suddenly I felt my heart begin to race and I began to feel dizzy as my visual field became black. That is the last thing I recall before awakening to find myself lying on the ground in the front yard, with the handle of the rake resting on my chest.”
    ― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out
    tags: heartfelt, helping-others, hospital-bureaucracy, humour, manipulation, medical, medical-drama, medical-fiction, overworked, passion
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    M.R. Noble
    “If energy never died, I now knew that love didn’t either; it could only be transformed.”
    ― M.R. Noble, Dark Eyes: White Lies
    tags: dark, fantasy, horror, intrigue, paranormal, romance, thriller, vampire, vampire-romance
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy in Saigon.

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: destruction, difficulty, fighting, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty, vietnam, war
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    Karl Braungart
    “The CID official said to the Russians, “I didn’t know contractors worked on weekends. Why are you two here today?”
    ― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity
    tags: drama, fiction, hunted, illicit, literary, mystery, suspense, suspense-thriller, suspicion, thriller
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “Nature is a temple, where the living
    Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech;
    Man walks within these groves of symbols, each
    Of which regards him as a kindred thing.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
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  • #9
    “There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.”
    ― Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
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    Paulo Coelho
    “In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. 'Time' doesn't pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we're always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don't want and how to get what we have always dreamed of.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Aleph
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    Azar Nafisi
    “الانسحاب الى احلامنا قد يكون خطراً”
    ― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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    Bernhard Schlink
    “Über ihr damaliges Gesicht haben sich in meiner Erinnerung ihre späteren Gesichter gelegt. Wenn ich sie vor meine Augen rufe, wie sie damals war, dann stellt sie sich ohne Gesicht ein. Ich muß es rekonstruieren. Hohe Stirn, hohe Backenknochen, blaßblaue Augen, volle, ohne Einbuchtung gleichmäßig geschwungene Lippen, kräftiges Kinn. Ein großflächiges, herbes, frauliches Gesicht. Ich weiß, daß ich es schön fand. Aber ich sehe seine Schönheit nicht vor mir.”
    ― Bernhard Schlink
    tags: beauty, deutsch, german, love
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    Richard Matheson
    “Now when I die, I shall only be dead.”
    ― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories
    tags: death
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