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“When a trapper entered the valley, I reflected back on my life as an Indian. "I'm sure as an Indian living on the plains, I trapped animals for their fur and for their meat, I took what I needed for survival, but doing it for profit somehow rubbed me the wrong way”
― John-Paul Cernak, The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower

tags: environmental, generational, hippies, magic, marijuana, mystery, natural-world, seventies, sixties, unfaithfulness

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#2

“I love salmon. Of all my fishy friends, I love salmon the best. Or trout. Or tuna. Or smelts. Oh heck. I love them ALL! But I have such fond memories of salmon. See, my dad was a fisherman. I mean a fanatic fisherman. Fishing was probably what he liked to do most (along with gardening and riding horses and camping in the Sierra and bowling and… ) But honestly, folks, fishing was probably the winner for leisure-time activities.”
― Mallory M. O'Connor, The Kitchen and the Studio: A Memoir of Food and Art

tags: celebrations, eat, family, food, love, love-story, paint, paintings, recipes, wines

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#3

“I was able to shake off the near-death experience, and whether it was true or not, I was able to use it as some sort of moral validation as to the importance of my existence, or at least the importance of me completing this job, because clearly God, the universe or whoever understood that there was no other human being alive on this earth stupid enough to take this job.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: doctors, domestic, domestic-thriller, fiction, health, medical, medical-fiction, medical-thriller, patients, ruin

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#4

“Paul Remmich is going to do something special before moving to Cuba. He will have to sign a legal agreement protecting him to work for Iraq as an independent diplomat.”
― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

tags: action, diplomat, drama, fast-paced, fiction, mystery, suspicion, thriller, thriller-novel

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#5

“They came for me the next morning.”
― Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

tags: action, child, danger, different-worlds, drama, excitement, literary, love, mothers-love, senses

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#6

“We are narrow thinkers, we are noisy thinkers, and it is very easy to improve upon us.”
― ajay agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

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#7

“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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#8

“Life is so outrageous I could not have imagined it, made all the
sweeter because it cannot last. It is all about today. Today is the
best day ever because tomorrow might not happen.”
― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

tags: compassion, desert, encourageing, fearless, inspirational, mystical, nature, passion, reflections, wild

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#9

“Do you think there is heaven or hell? he signed.
‘I don’t know. Not in the Christian way, if that’s what you mean. I think people have a right to believe in whatever they want. I just don’t.’…
If someone came in here and gave you positive proof, would you do anything different?
She shook her head. ‘I think it’s just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same time. And we still wouldn’t know what to do differently. Everyone just muddles through, trying not to make too many mistakes.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

tags: heaven, hell, home, mistakes, religion

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#10

“That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy."
Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things."
But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -- the one with all the horror."
I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?"
Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

tags: cinema, horror-movies, humor, killers, stupidity

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#11

“To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

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#12

“Little Engine That Could - "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.”
― Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#13

“It's the countryside. Perhaps this is our holiday home.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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#14

“Yet few slaveholders seem to be aware of the widespread moral ruin occasioned by this wicked system. Their talk is of blighted cotton crops--not of the blight on their children's souls.”
― Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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