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    Todor Bombov
    “Socialism is not a competition; it is not a monopoly, either. Socialism is not a private property; it is not a state one, either. Socialism is a completely different thing. What is socialism in such case?”
    ― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
    tags: abolition, capitalism, freedom, humanity, keynes, nationalization, planned-capitalism, political-ideology, socialism, state
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    H. Meadow Hopewell
    “...We’re already the prey, and we don’t even know it.”
    ― H. Meadow Hopewell, Rage Against the Machine
    tags: action-thriller, dark, echnothriller, emotionally-charged, investigative, near-future, novel, political, tense, thriller
    30 likes

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    “You never know what kind of people are out there… Having a dog like yours is a big help, but they can’t stop a gun.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, Killer
    tags: action, crimefiction, drama, realtalk, streetsense, tensereads, thrillerquotes, weapon
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    Mark Ellis
    “Everyone was in position by 9 p.m. Merlin and Bridges had taken the Charing Cross conveniences, Johnson Leicester Square and Price Piccadilly Circus. It was agreed that Robinson would move back and forth between the three locations and act as a go-between.”
    ― Mark Ellis, Death of an Officer
    tags: action, conflict, destruction, documented, drama, life, loyalty, secrets, unity, unrest
    63 likes

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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Many Australians experienced a sense of unease, a sense of being watched by unseen eyes.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick
    tags: atmospheric, eveningreads, exeperiences, fight, hauntinglines, history, soldierslife, vietnamwar, warfiction
    30 likes

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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Our cousin Patrick Hacker McKaybees, died fighting by the side of the king.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood
    tags: action-and-adventure, action-fiction, adventure, fiction, knight, marriage, military, romantic-action, saviour, war-and-military
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    Gary Clemenceau
    “I even seemed to be moving in kind of robotic, audio-animatronic fashion, beep boop.”
    ― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity
    tags: absurdism, charactervoice, quirkylines, sharethis, voicey, wryhumor
    135 likes

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    “by”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
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    Max Nowaz
    “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
    283 likes

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    Dennis Lehane
    “So, about the only difference I see between a thief and a banker most times is a college degree.”
    ― Dennis Lehane, World Gone By
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    “It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend.”
    ― Kristin Cashore, Fire
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    Alex Haley
    “And there was a lot of exclaiming about some Massa Patrick Henry having cried out, 'Give me liberty or give me death!' Kunta liked that, but he couldn't understand how somebody white could say it; white folks looked pretty free to him.”
    ― Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family
    tags: freedom, liberty, political-freedom, revolution, slavery
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    Tim LaHaye
    “he rested in the knowledge that he was a child of the King, a saved, forgiven, precious, beloved son safe in the hollow of his Father’s hand.”
    ― Tim LaHaye, The Indwelling
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    Gary Paulsen
    “She was beautiful in a way that only wild things can be beautiful.”
    ― Gary Paulsen, Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
    tags: beauty, nature, wild
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    John Irving
    “Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."

    (Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)”
    ― John Irving
    tags: casualties, craft, novels, victims, writing
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