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    Amy L. Bernstein
    “Journalism…is an unreliable aggregation of belief spaces.”
    ― Amy L. Bernstein, The Potrero Complex
    tags: attitude, dark, fast-paced, fear, gripping, journalism, love, mysterious, mystery, romance
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    S.G. Blaise
    “Callum holds me tightly as we submerge under the water. Thin lines of air bubbles escape from his nose and mouth. He struggles to get back to the surface but to no avail—his heavy uniform and black boots weren’t meant for swimming.”
    ― S.G. Blaise, Proud Pada
    tags: adventure, ancient-traditions, diversity, hero, heroic, lies, saga, traditions, trilogy, truth
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    Max Nowaz
    “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
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    Claudia Clark
    “Obama’s next words captured the attention of the world and the amusement of those present. As he wagged his finger at the crowd, he scolded, ‘So stop it, all of you. I know you have to find something to report on, but we have more than enough problems out there without manufacturing problems.”
    ― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
    tags: calculation, character, goals, greatness, humanity, influence, marriage, personal-goals, political, relationship
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    “We proceeded to make way across the mighty Hooghly River, a monstrous offshoot of the Ganges, where we contemplated for a moment, our thoughts seemingly caught in the roaring southward current; there we gazed, toward where the city transitions into mangrove jungle, and somewhere a bit further to the southwest where all the rivers split infinitely like capillaries, where those famous Bengal tigers trod among the sunderbans. Peering in that direction, Bajju gripped the vertical bars just above the horizontal pedestrian railing, breathing slowly and silently, knees locked, still, despite being on arguably the busiest and loudest bridge in the world.”
    ― Colin Phelan, The Local School
    tags: find-oneself, friendships, identity, life-lessons, personal-identity, philosophy, poetry, political-history, teachings, universal-values
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    Karl Braungart
    “Aha, Yury, I wonder if they are getting more US military. I am very anxious to get the recording. We want to know what is taking place between these Americans and Iraqis.”
    ― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity
    tags: drama, fiction, hunted, illicit, literary, mystery, suspense, suspense-thriller, suspicion, thriller
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  • #7
    “The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull burst like a ripe cabbage showering his horrified comrades with viscous brain and bits of bone.”
    ― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
    tags: atrocities, facts, fiction, history, lies, literature, secrets, war, wartime
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    Kyle Keyes
    “Your little buddy just gave me the greatest
       Christmas gift I've ever gotten.”
    ― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus
    tags: 21st-century, crime-thriller, fiction, intrigue, murder, mystery-thriller, suffering, thriller-novels
    166 likes

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    John Bennardo
    “I once bought my producer a case of Mountain Dew, his favorite soda, as a thank you for all he'd done for me. He was really surprised - his favorite drink is actually 7UP. But he complimented me for getting the color of the can right.”
    ― John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake
    tags: biting-satire, celebrities, fiction, honest, humorous, literature, modern-fiction, satire, satirical, satirical-fiction
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    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
    tags: charming, cozy-mystery, humorous, romantic, secret-society, small-town-mystery, small-town-romance, witty
    154 likes

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    Harvey Havel
    “She likes me.  I can tell.  Problem is, she won’t admit that to the boyfriends she brings over.”
    ― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
    tags: fiction, horror, humour, literary-fiction, paranormal, politics, sci-fi, science-fiction, short-stories
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Because I know that time is always time

    And place is always and only place...”
    ― T.S. Eliot
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    Malcolm Gladwell
    “A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down.”
    ― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
    tags: career, difficult-decisions, forgiveness, life, power, powerful-women, strength, wisdom, women, women-in-power
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    John Bunyan
    “But though this be so, yet since things present and our fleshly appetite are such near neighbours one to another; and again, because things to come, and carnal sense, are such strangers one to another; therefore it is, that the first of these so suddenly fall into amity, and that distance is so continued between the second.”
    ― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
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    Mary Doria Russell
    “Once I told Ha�anala about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. . . . I told her how Abraham bargained with God for the lives of ten righteous men who might have lived there. She said to me, �Abraham should have taken the babies from the cities. The babies were innocent.�”
    ― Mary Doria Russell, Children of God
    tags: bible
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Here is a relationship booster
    that is guaranteed to
    work:

    Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid
    make your eyes light up as if you
    just heard something
    brilliant.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
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    Samuel Beckett
    “لا شيء ينقضي، لا أحد يأتي، لا أحد يذهب، هذا رهيب.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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