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#1

“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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#2

“Some days are better than others, for human optimism has no limits.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

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#3

“Mildred adjusted the papers and scribbled some more. When she was finished, she took off her glasses, leaving them to swing from the chain around her neck. She gave the women around the table a pointed look. “Now think hard, ladies, can you come up with anything else?”
― Kirsten Fullmer

tags: cozy-mystery, cozy-romance, small-town-mystery

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#4

“Moments from their life together flickered: their first time making love. Eating pizza on the floor of their city apartment. The way he gently laid his thumb to still her wildly twitching eye. Who was he now? Who was she? What was happening? … Yes, my partner is a thief. A thief in the night.”
― Amy L. Bernstein, The Potrero Complex

tags: action, dark, drama, fiction, journalism, love, mystery, pandemic, realistic, science

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#5

“We all care about what others think. Those that say the don’t will ponder how others feel about that. ”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: barriers, be-proud, chase-dreams, conquering, dreamer, life, love, respect, smile, soar

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#6

“Well, here’s the shocker,” said Kirby. “Majors Miller and McKinsey believe our former Captain Paul Remmich is acting as a spy for the Iraqi government.”
― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

tags: cia, cold-war, conflict, government, identity, iraq, jeopardy, military, series, spy

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#7

“We give our mistakes too much power. Instead, see a mistake for what it is. It is not the real you… You are more valuable than the opinion others have of you.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: abmition, awakening, glory, joy, soul, spirituality, truth, values, wander, writer

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#8

“Most weight-loss books are written by smart, well-intentioned people who read a lot of other weight-loss books and write their book based on their collected 2nd hand knowledge and their personal experience. Glucose Control Eating© is different. It’s based on over 40 years of empirical testing and over 85,000 tests on the impact of foods and drinks on weight. ”
― Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer

tags: body, control, diabetes, fats, free-foods, health, healthy-eating, live-life, live-longer, wellbeing

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#9

“I’ve watched hundreds of deed transfers take place right here on the steps of the Registry,” Michele mused. “At those moments of transfer, I’ve seen in the eyes of desperate sellers an emotional reconciliation of irrevocably relinquishing a homestead, a treasured dominion, willingly or otherwise. Perhaps all these deeds, Mr. Geoffrey…perhaps they, too, have their own soul, a predilection that would tell me more than what they say if only I had the capacity to ask.”
― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

tags: adventure, deceit, drama, exciting, humour, intrigue, past, romance, romantic-literary-fiction, suspicion

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#10

“At one point, approximately halfway through her remarks, Merkel stated in German something about ‘being able to greet the president of the United States of America, Barack Obama,’ and an overly ambitious Obama, who perhaps thought that was his cue, headed toward the podium. Perhaps catching the president’s movement out of the corner of her eye, Merkel thought quickly, and without even looking up from her notes, she told the excited American president, in English, ‘Not yet, dear Mr. President, dear Barack Obama.’ Obama sheepishly returned to his seat to allow the chancellor to finish her speech.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

tags: american-history, diplomacy, european-history, history, international, literary, politics, speeches, women-in-politics

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#11

“She imagined all the mothers of the unnamed children, imagined the ad cut from the paper, a mother writing her child’s name at the bottom of the list to add their child to the names of those who would return home, those beautiful children who would never be forgotten, as if their child’s name needed to be on the list to be remembered—to have been disappeared. ”
― Douglas Weissman

tags: adventure, depression, drama, family, fantasy, fiction, imagination, literary, pain

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#12

“We are surrounded by forces that technology cannot yet measure.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

tags: advice, allotments, fruits, harvest, herbs, informative, organic, plants, tips, vegetables

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#13

“una vida tan variada como pocas se verán en el mundo; que comenzó locamente y concluyó mucho mejor de lo que jamás hubiese esperado.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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#14

“You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.”
― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

tags: family, past

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#15

“Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?”
― Paul Cude, Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past

tags: fantasy, fantasy-books, fantasy-books-humour, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-young-adult

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#16

“How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence. ”
― E.L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday

tags: absence

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#17

“Ooo ahe-e, I aya oa a," she said in yawnspeak, a language - not unlike Hawaiian - known for its paucity of consonants.”
― Christopher Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

tags: christopher-moore, fluke

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#18

“I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: living, social-anxiety, yearning

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#20

“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
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― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, fictional, magical, realistic, suspense, thriller

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#21

“Bring me Mother Julian’s Scroll within two weeks, or I’ll get that guttersnipe Leni prosecuted for attempted murder. She won’t survive long in prison.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, insight, trauma, unpredictable

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#22

“
The she-wolf visibly recoiled. “You speak with the dead? Then you are truly the one spoken of who has come to save us.” She stood immediately and gave a shrill howl to her pack, all the wolves in the glade sitting up with ears pricked. “I give you Two-heads,” called the she-wolf, “the shaman our elders foretold, he comes to save us from the predations of the men from the sky...”
― Graham Pryor, Cerberus

tags: action, drama, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, general, mystery, past, science

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#23

“Hours passed—or maybe days. It didn’t matter. The body adapted. But the mind—
The mind needed purpose.
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― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

tags: complexity, dark-humour, drama, dramatic, emotionally-charged, fiction, heart-wrenching, human-fragility, intrigue, thriller

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#24

“The trail to the Assam frontier lies in that direction,” said the Duwa, pointing to the north … I am scared about proceeding further during the rains. I may not be able to recross the rivers and, moreover, I hear that numerous people have died on the trek and their sprawling bodies would be close companions for us all day and every day.” I felt a creepy sensation down my spine but I did not continue the subject just then. I knew that if the Duwa and his villagers decided not to come with us to the frontier we should be in a sorrier plight than ever. Captain Gribble”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

tags: defeat, fear, helplessness, hidden-secrets, history, insight, insightful, isolation, truth, war

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#25

“Decker smiled and shrugged off their laughter. The humour was only barbed if you sat on the outside, and now he was one of them.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: defiant, one-of-them

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#26

“Robinson had thoroughly enjoyed her evening at the opera. Her only previous experience had been a performance of Wagner, to which the Assistant Commissioner, an avid Wagnerian, had taken her a year before. It was a strange but admirable British characteristic, she had thought at the time, how little antagonism was directed against the great artistic creations of the enemy, even of Richard Wagner, the great idol of Hitler.”
― Mark Ellis, The French Spy

tags: descriptive, eye-opener, frontline-journalist, hatred, history, loss, perspectives, sacrifice, senseless-violence, violence

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#27

“Everything struggles to live.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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#28

“Man must learn to stand and walk with his spirit rather than crawl with his technology before he allows that technology - which is the physical expression of his spiritual Shadow - to destroy him. God’s ultimate aim for Man is not known and not even knowable in our present state; we must become spiritually adult before we can even discover what God holds in store for us as a spiritual species; all previous ideas of Heaven (or Hell) or Second Comings or Judgment Days are childish attempts to come to terms with our own ignorance.”
― Iain Banks, Whit

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#29

“College will probably destroy your love for poetry. Hours of boring analysis, dissection, and criticism will see to that. College will also expose you to all manner of literature—much of it transcendent works of magic that you must devour; some of it utter dreck that you must avoid like the plague.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

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#30

“Your body is only clothing. Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart

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#31

“He would be an educational exhibit. People wouldn't learn much about the anatomy from him but they would learn all there was to know about war. That would be a great thing to concentrate war into one stump of a body and to show it to people so they could see the difference between a war that's in the newspaper headlines and liberty loan drives and a war that is fought out lonesomely in the mud somewhere a war between man and a high explosive shell.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

tags: headlines, truth, war

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