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#1

“They don't know what a stand up guy you are."
"Even more so, now that I have four legs, right?”
― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

tags: chosen-family, curiosity, hardship, intrigue, legend, loss, murder, nature, secrets, young-adult-fiction

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#2

“The issue of reimbursement by payers is an important factor that should be discussed. Is it possible that if radiologists use AI to read scans, they’ll receive less reimbursement? Or to approach this from the other angle, if payers are reimbursing for the use of AI, will they pay radiologists less as a result? My discussions with insurance executives have shown that they don’t think this is likely. If the use of these technologies will improve patient outcomes and lead to fewer errors, there are benefits to them that will motivate executives to pay for them in addition to radiologists’ reading fees.”
― Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

tags: disease, education, future, genomics, healthcare-investments, mental-health, pandemics, success, technology

166 likes

#3

“If you had closed your eyes and looked inward, you would have seen me; you would have seen us. We have always been inseparable, like night and day, light and dark, flowers and fruits, and spirituality and sexuality.”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

tags: hope, hopeful-and-encouraging, lovers, relationship-quotes, romance, sexuality, spiritual, spirituality-quotes, tantra

52 likes

#4

“Running out the anchor line, the pirates babbled to one another, and in the tangle of their barbaric language, Aspasia listened for one word—Athens. It lit up the darkness in her mind, like the single glint her eyes fixed on above the distant gray-green hills.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: adventure, athens, democracy, educational, evolution, fiction, greece, love, love-story, novel

351 likes

#5

“A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

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

451 likes

#6

“An idea came to me. A crazy idea. I wanted to sneak into Holler’s estate located behind Holler Enterprises and find out more about what he had going on. I wanted to know about all those other buildings that could be seen stretching back into a heavily wooded area. Did it go all the way back to Santa Rosaria Sound?”
― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

tags: crime, mystery, thriller

68 likes

#7

“I feel homesick but I don’t know where for.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

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#8

“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

226 likes

#9

“I always wake when you do, Sassenach; I sleep ill without ye by my side.”
― Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross

tags: fiery-cross, jamie-fraser, outlander

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#10

“Why love the boy in a March field with his kite braving the sky? Because our fingers burn with the hot string singeing our hands. Why love some girl viewed from a train bent to a country well? The tongue remembers iron water cool on some long lost noon. Why weep at strangers dead by the road? They resemble friends unseen in forty years. Why laugh when clowns are hot by pies? We taste custard we taste life. Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose. Her ears hear music I might sing half the night through; therefore I love her ears. Her eyes delight in seasons of the land; and so I love those eyes. Her tongue knows quince, peach, chokeberry, mint and lime; I love to hear it speaking. Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain. Shared and once again shared experience. Billions of prickling textures. Cut one sense away, cut part of life away. Cut two senses; life halves itself on the instant. We love what we know, we love what we are. Common cause, common cause, common cause of mouth, eye, ear, tongue, hand, nose, flesh, heart, and soul.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

tags: philosophic-reflection

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#11

“Entertainment has a bad name...The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights. ”
― Michael Chabon, Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

tags: first-lines

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#12

“You know why my wheelchair doesn't have handles, Grayson? I don't like to be pushed.”
― Chuck Dixon, Birds of Prey (1999-2009) #8

tags: barbara-gordon, batgirl, birds-of-prey, dc-comics, dick-grayson, oracle

34 likes

#13

“I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

tags: human-nature

61 likes

#14

“Death was far less terrible than the living prospect that was before us”
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

tags: arthur

9 likes

#15

“To whomever swapped my tattoo cream for toothpaste........ well played.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: humour, humourous-situations, tattoo, tattoos

288 likes

#16

“Adrian blew his whistle and shouted, “Attack and put too death all those who oppose the fatherland!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: find-oneself, friendships, learning, life-lessons, love, personal-identity, philosophy, teachings, truths, value

177 likes

#17

“Somebody always had to pay, and he was glad it was not going to be him. Meanwhile he had managed to ruin the perfect marriage by turning Dick into a crayfish and making Rachael think that he had run off with another woman.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

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

466 likes

#18

“This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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

938 likes

#19

“Imagine there’s no Sadness, it’s easy if you try…” whoever sings, John something. “Nothing white inside us, around us only DIE… Imagine all the Shells, Loving everyday—“ ”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

tags: awakening, courage, discovering, emotional-depth, existential-despair, futuristic, gripping, heart, self-harm, struggles

133 likes

#20

“Inseparable as sibs—strained as a couple.”
― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

tags: action, adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, intrigue, literature, magic, mystery, urban-fantasy

338 likes

#21

“She cocked an eyebrow at me and said, “No. After the week I’ve just spent with you, there are going to be plenty of people that are gonna want to shoot you. You better get used to that.” Which hurt my feelings a little.”
― Michael Deeze, The Deathbed Confessions

tags: action, agent, chicago, investigation, life-sentence, morally-grey, pain, serial-killer-thrillers, shared-secrets, unpredictable

24 likes

#22

“As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son.” For a second I expected his voice to morph into Uncle Sid’s as he urged me to give his love to Rose Marie and the Mounties.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: childhood-memories, fiction, happiness, hardship, home, life, loss, memories, pain, sadness

116 likes

#23

“Falconers,” she continued, sternly. “Pull yourselves together. People are dying. The police don’t have the family history to solve murders forty years apart.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

tags: danger, drama, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-novel, insight, suspense, thriller, unpredictable

315 likes

#24

“Appearances matter — and remember to smile.”
― Nelson Mandela

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#25

“[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will vibrate the air. Red and white lights will pass in the sky, lights will shine along highways and glance off windows. There is always a radio that can be turned to some all-night station, or a television set to turn artificial moonlight into the flickering images of the late show. We can put on a turntable whatever consolation we most respond to, Mozart or Copland or the Grateful Dead.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

tags: darkness, isolation, loneliness, modern-society, noise, peace, shallowness, silence, stillness, technology

67 likes

#26

“Modern party-dance is simply writhing to suggestive music. It is ridiculous, silly to watch and excruciatingly embarrassing to perform. It is ridiculous, and yet absolutely everyone does it, so that it is the person who does not want to do the ridiculous thing who feels out of place and uncomfortable and self-conscious . . . in a word, ridiculous. Right out of Kafka: the person who does not want to do the ridiculous thing is the person who is ridiculous. [...] Modern party-dance is an evil thing.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System

tags: conformity, dancing, humor

89 likes

#27

“Comme elles tombent bien !
Dans ce trajet si court de la branche à la terre,
Comme elles savent mettre une beauté dernière,
Et, malgré leur terreur de pourrir sur le sol,
Veulent que cette chute ait la grâce d'un vol !”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

tags: cyrano-de-bergerac

8 likes

#28

“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

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#29

“We’re all under the streetlamps, everyone’s the color of day-old piss. When I’m fifty, this is how I’ll remember my friends: tired and yellow and drunk.”
― Junot Díaz, Drown

tags: dark-humor

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