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    “Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this, Squadron Leader. It was our war, our victory and now it is our Berlin. We tolerate your presence in this city… if that.”
    KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

  • #2
    Robyn Arianrhod
    “I understand my parents quite well. They think of a wife as a man’s luxury, which he can afford only when he is making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of this view of the relationship between man and wife, because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a lifelong contract from the man because of her more favourable social rank . . . Which”
    Robyn Arianrhod, Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²

  • #3
    Walter Farley
    “I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.”
    Walter Farley, The Black Stallion

  • #4
    Therisa Peimer
    “Aurelia was just about to take a sip of a mimosa when Mother Guardian snatched the flute away and promptly downed the drink in one gulp. Burping unashamedly, she said, "We can't have the validity of the marriage contracts jeopardized because the bride got rat-assed on her wedding day.”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #5
    Sara Pascoe
    “It is weird that the same two parents can come together and make two such different people.”
    Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

  • #6
    Malcolm X
    “Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
    Malcolm X

  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #8
    Jana Petken
    “She, of course, had to tell him that her knowledge was due to her great love of books and”
    Jana Petken, The Guardian of Secrets

  • #9
    Mary Doria Russell
    “I suppose I should warn you, Padre. In the absence of male supervision, my mother has become a revolutionary." ~Renzo Leoni”
    Mary Doria Russell, A Thread of Grace

  • #10
    Pearl S. Buck
    “If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #11
    T. Rafael Cimino
    “The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It's a circle.”
    T. Rafael Cimino, Split... Civility For A Divided Nation



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