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    “You cannot!' Tatiana said sharply. 'If you order a gun there is only a single shot, and once delivered the doors are locked and will not open until it has been fired.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: dangerous-games, dangerous-liaisons, impending-doom
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  • #2
    Henry Miller
    “But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.”
    ― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
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  • #3
    Ray Bradbury
    “Suddenly the day was gone,
    night came out from under each tree and spread.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
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  • #4
    José Saramago
    “doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time,”
    ― José Saramago, Caim
    tags: age, cain, doubt
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales
    tags: remembering
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    Italo Calvino
    “Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they are a dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.”
    ― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
    tags: books, home, reading
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    Denis Johnson
    “Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn’t know what his right hand was doing. It was only that certain important connections had been burned through. If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that.”
    ― Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son
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    Dennis Cooper
    “Love: a hybrid emotion made up of various other emotions collaged by some weak individual's mind to try to quell a particular horror that's not been wiped out by more standardized symbols like Christ, etc. Nietzsche, right? Whatever.”
    ― Dennis Cooper, Try
    tags: emotions, love
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: nabokov, pale-fire, vladimir-nabokov
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  • #10
    Michael G. Kramer
    “Although enemy forces had overrun the mortar and some gun positions, they did not have everything their own way.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: documented, factual, indochina-war, insightful, recount-of-war, united, unity, unrest, warring, world
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    K. Ritz
    “Whither be the heart of Justice?
                Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
                Whither be the heart of Justice?
                Lo, tis fast in stone.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, literary-fiction, magic-cultures, mystery, sorcery, wit
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    Todor Bombov
    “Of course, during the centuries the justice was always a rather elastic term, but always till now and “everywhere the justice is the same thing – the usefully for the stronger” (Plato, The Republic).”
    ― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
    tags: civil-society, class-inequality, democrats, dictatorship, oppression, political, political-system, scientific-socialism, socialism, unity
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  • #13
    “A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris had stopped again, his silhouette a stark black juxtaposition against the background of illuminated branches.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: descriptive-prose, visual-moments
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  • #14
    “This is step one to receiving God’s heart: Decide that your mission on this earth is to obey God every single day.”
    ― Kathryn Krick, The Secret of the Anointing: Accessing the Power of God to Walk in Miracles
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  • #15
    “It doesn’t matter how smart you are or what you know; if you learn to put those two things together, to let your pain drive your talent, you can become the best at anything you do in life.”
    ― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
    tags: encouraging, experiences, hopeful, life, life-skills, motivating, reality, self-healing, wisdom, wise
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    John Grogan
    “It’s just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn’t it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.”
    ― John Grogan, Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
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    Tina Traverse
    “We Are brothers, tied by blood, in our veins, what we spill. But it is a deadly secret that will forever bind us.”
    ― Tina Traverse, Destiny of the Vampire
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    Dan Brown
    “If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!”
    ― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
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    Anne Rice
    “Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you have been trying to find but have not found. But write. And remember, there are no rules for our profession. Ignore rules. Ignore what I say here if it doesn't help you. Do it your own way. Every writer knows fear and discouragement. Just write.The world is crying for new writing. It is crying for fresh and original voices and new characters and new stories. If you won't write the classics of tomorrow, well, we will not have any.”
    ― Anne Rice
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  • #20
    Laura Hillenbrand
    “If I knew I had to go through those experiences again," he finally said, "I'd kill myself.”
    ― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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  • #21
    David Guterson
    “They don’t really matter,” said Ishmael. “None of those other things make a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we’re safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.”
    ― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
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