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  • #1
    John Bennardo
    “My father was incredibly indecisive. As an example, take his wedding day. He couldn't decide where to sit in the getaway car, decide the fact he was supposed to be driving.”
    John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake

  • #2
    Tom  Baldwin
    “Immediately after that fate-filled evening in May, the phone booth in its entirety had been confiscated by the Homicide Unit as embodying significant criminal evidence of murder. More accurately, though, the booth was like an envelope encapsulating the entire crime scene, including splattered skull fragments.”
    Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

  • #3
    Kyle Keyes
    “I told you she was doing all four of 'em.”
    Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

  • #4
    Gregory Dickow
    “Purpose gives perspective to your pain and powers you through it. Without it, your pain can paralyze you.”
    Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

  • #5
    Karl Braungart
    “Major Yildiz has a contact in Stuttgart who is a high-ranking officer of the US V Corps. He is going to help us.”
    Karl Braungart, Lost Identity

  • #6
    Kirsten Fullmer
    “Monique bit at the side of lip. “He’s pretty active, I don’t want to impose…”
    Tony stood and scooped up the puppy. “No, seriously, I’d love a little company.”
    Kirsten Fullmer, Problems at the Pub

  • #7
    Harvey Havel
    “The television set then came after her, chomping its teeth.  Upon reaching the living room, the television succeeded at eating her body bit-by-bit: first the legs, then the body, and finally her flailing arms.”
    Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

  • #8
    C. Toni Graham
    “Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.”
    C.Toni Graham

  • #9
    Dave Cullen
    “And we have obviously failed on guns. Victims have engaged the public, and polls consistently indicate that huge majorities, including gun owners, support commonsense steps. Dr. Ochberg is frustrated, too. “Good people have tried to do good things but no policy has been enacted to reduce access of military weapons to kids,” he said. “No leader has had the guts to take on the NRA.” Nor has its own membership.”
    Dave Cullen, Columbine

  • #10
    Maya Angelou
    “If you’re not angry, you’re either a stone, or you’re too sick to be angry. You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger, yes. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #11
    Richard Carlson
    “Often, the answer to a problem or dilemma is not immediately obvious, and we simply don’t know what to do next. As we mentioned earlier, a problem cannot be solved at the same level of thinking in which it was created; we need a shift in our level of understanding. This logic reminds us that if we do not know the answer to a specific problem, recycling the same information over and over usually will not produce a solution. It will, however, keep our minds busy and speeded up. It will create stress. We’ve all had the experience of being stuck in “thought quicksand,” where our mental struggling sucks us deeper into our analytical thinking. This is an example of the misuse of the analytical thought process.”
    Richard Carlson, Slowing Down to the Speed of Life: How to Create a more Peaceful, Simpler Life from the Inside Out

  • #12
    Iain Banks
    “Horza recalled that the Culture's attitude to somebody who believed in an omnipotent God was to pity them, and to take no more notice of the substance of their faith than one would take of the ramblings of somebody claiming to be Emperor of the Universe. The nature of the belief wasn't totally irrelevant - along with the person's background and upbringing, it might tell you something about what had gone wrong with them - but you didn't take their views seriously.”
    Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas

  • #13
    Barbara Sontheimer
    “I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace.
    But this time, he refused to let her go.  "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me!  What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you by 130 pounds, how could you possibly be afraid of me!" He laughed.”
    Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

  • #14
    Sara Pascoe
    “Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #15
    Rebecca Rosenberg
    “They do not expect such misbehavior from me.”
    Rebecca Rosenberg, Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

  • #16
    Frank  Lambert
    “You are thinking in human terms again,
    and forgetting Time is neither tick nor tock...
    Jarle Heavyfoot”
    Frank Lambert, Ghost Doors

  • #17
    “You can use all the hundred dollar words you want,” said Vic, “women like that are like TNT. You go after their man, they’d sooner kill you than look at you.”
    A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

  • #18
    K.  Ritz
    “At what point does faith become insanity?”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #19
    Susan  Rowland
    “Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,” she directed at the Falconers, “Sir Viktor’s holding a house party for the convenience of the police. It’s like an old-fashioned mystery novel.”
    Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

  • #20
    John Rachel
    “You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.”
    John Rachel, Blinders Keepers

  • #21
    Dave Cullen
    “You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself.”
    Dave Cullen, Columbine

  • #22
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Now wonder our youth is confused and in pain; they long for God, for the transcendent, and they are offered, far too often, either piosity or sociology, neither of which meets their needs, and they are introduced to churches which have become buildings that are a safe place to go to escape the awful demands of God.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

  • #23
    Günter Grass
    “Or you can start by declaring that novels can no longer be written, and then, behind your own back as it were, produce a mighty blockbuster that establishes you as the last of the great novelists.”
    Gunter Grass

  • #24
    D.H. Lawrence
    “You know, he said, with an effort, 'if one person loves, the other does.'
    …'I hope so, because if it were not, love might be a very terrible thing,' she said.
    'Yes, but it is - at least with most people,' he answered.”
    D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

  • #25
    Richard Bach
    “if you argue for your limitations they are yours”
    Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

  • #26
    Dashiell Hammett
    “You ought to have known I'd do it!" My voice sounded harsh and savage like a stranger's in my ears. "Didn't I steal a crutch from a cripple?”
    dashiell hammett



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