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#1

“She is the kind and friendly sort, but I’m an old man at this point, so it would be useless and somewhat illegal if I asked her out.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: action, adult, complex, drama, fiction, griping, literary-fiction, short-stories

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#2

“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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#3

“When we see a mountain too hard to climb, God helps us climb it but in His own time.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye

tags: beautiful, cute-illustrations, find-god, helpful, hope, illustrations, light, prayer, self-awareness, self-love

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#4

“Most of us can find our way out of the wilderness without Moses.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

tags: sci-fi, scifi, scifi-adventure

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#5

“Are you going to kiss where you pinched? Ocuh! Stop hitting me, Glen! I’m hurrying!”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

tags: magic, mystery, science-fiction

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#6

“Feed the soul beauty, and it will heal itself.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: christian-spiritual-growth, conquer, content, fearless, liberating, power, pride, resiliency, spiritual, success

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#7

“The coolies pull them across Howrah bridge, which they share with cars, trucks, bullock carts, a party of young women in saris strolling in no hurry wearing bangles on their ankles, an elephant also in no hurry, and a cow that is lying down in the middle of the road chewing lazily a booklet entitled Dr W C Roy’s SPECIFIC FOR INSANITY. The camera pauses on a portion of the half-eaten text: “Dr Roy’s insanity medicine acted a charm. I am completely cured,” says Srinath Ghosh of Bundelkund. 5 rupees per phial.”
― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

tags: calcutta, dundee, family, future, heritage, history, insight, love, past, understanding

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#8

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

tags: science-fiction, time-travel, time-travel-fiction, time-travel-romance

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#9

“As she had done when she introduced the US president in Berlin, she addressed him publicly with the informal du for the first time since the NSA controversy in 2013.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

tags: admiration, bonds, controversies, democracy, friends, influential, leaders, policy, research, respec

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#10

“Being magnanimous in victory usually worked, but to keep abreast of the situation he had to  pump the girl for all she knew. Was there a pang of remorse for his actions in his mind?  Possibly, but what choice did he have? If he wanted to survive, he had no room for weakness.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

tags: action, dark, dark-humour, drama, fiction-writing, humour, mystery, thriller

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#11

“I didn’t vomit today. Guess that’s progress. The sadist doesn’t care. Still dizzy, though. Chanelle says I’ll get use to it. She’d know. She’s been here over a year. I don’t see myself lasting that long.”
― Amy L. Bernstein, The Potrero Complex

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

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#12

“The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: religion

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#13

“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: smile

1501 likes

#14

“But don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

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#15

“Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.”
― Günter Grass, Peeling the Onion

tags: memories, memory, memory-loss

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#16

“the blood tingling in my veins. That wonderful feeling that only a hunter knows crept over my body.”
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

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#17

“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
― Mark Twain

tags: inspirational

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#18

“The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training” to “protect our culture,” while they simultaneously paid $2 million a year for Dr. Porter to destroy it. It was a laughable facade, but instead I wanted to cry.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: action, drama, family-life, fiction, personal-growth, realistic, stress, strife, thriller

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#19

“But sir…’
     ‘Don’t worry I said I’ll do it,’ snapped the President.
     ‘But sir there’s just one other thing.’
     The President held the club in his hands like a seasoned baseball star. He glanced over at the Phlegm-O-Matic resting in the legionnaire’s rusted hand. ‘What?’
     ‘That protocol doesn’t include you.’
     The President’s shoulders sank and the air left his lungs in a rush. The legionnaire turned and aimed the gun at him.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

tags: artificial-intelligence, future, inventions, laugh-out-loud, past, present, science, science-adventure, secret, technology

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#20

“Nguyen said, “Ho and I shall return to our positions on the deck, where we are keeping watches of two people on duty for two hours at a time.”

He then continued, he said, “Cung, from what you have told me, you appear to be a loyal citizen of Vietnam. Yet, you are being hunted by the Vietnamese security organisations!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: action, battlefield, brothers, chaos, conflict, corruption, danger, peace, soldier, technical

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#21

“Maintaining the constant deception of my involvement in Loukin’s operation was like a peg in a log; one tap with the head of an ax, and it would split in two. We were irreparably split from the moment I chose to live a lie.”
― M.R. Noble, Dark Eyes: White Lies

tags: dark, fantasy, intrigue, mystery, thriller, urban-fantasy, vampire, vampire-romance

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#22

“At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: there is nothing there. There is nothing but those things only, those created objects, discrete, growing or holding, or swaying, being rained on or raining, held, flooding or ebbing, standing, or spread. You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same. This is it: this hum is the silence. Nature does utter a peep - just this one. The birds and insects, the meadows and swamps and rivers and stones and mountains and clouds: they all do it; they all don't do it. There is a vibrancy to the silence, a suppression, as if someone were gagging the world. But you wait, you give your life's length to listening, and nothing happens. The ice rolls up, the ice rolls back, and still that single note obtains. The tension, or lack of it, is intolerable. The silence is not actually suppression: instead, it is all there is.”
― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

tags: life, listening, nature

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#23

“You've got an awfully kissable mouth.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls

tags: fitzgerald, flapper, humor, kiss, kissing, kissing-quotes, love, lust, relationships, romance

107 likes

#24

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
― Caleb Carr, Surrender, New York

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#25

“He felt good for once, he really did. Maybe the deal was that life had to break your body down before you could see it. Maybe there wasn’t any other racket in town except this one that brought you to your nadir and challenged you to build yourself back up from it, then showed you that what you’d done at least meant something to someone.”
― Chris Cleave, Gold

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#26

“didn’t know why I was holding my breath because I knew that the old saying of how you could hold your breath and nothing would sting you was pure hogwash. I had tried that before and it hadn’t worked at all. Rowdy would have absolutely nothing to do with anything that”
― Wilson Rawls, Summer of the Monkeys

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#27

“Mom, please don't use 'the happy voice.' It reminds me of the day Tinkles died."
"Who was Tinkles?" Sue asked around a mouthful of pancake.
"My cat. When I was five, Tinkles died choking on a mouse that was a bit ambitious for a kitten to eat."
"It was terribly traumatic for Aurelia because it was the first time she'd experienced loss."
"What did you do to help her get through it?"
Rosalind smiled at Mother Guardian. "Well, after a good cry, we performed an autopsy."
Aurelia reached for her mother's hand. "I never thanked you for that.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: action-packed, assasination, drama, dystopian, gripping, love, romance, thriller, war

435 likes

#28

“Think about it mate – the 'Long Gun'. That's a ladyboy bar.”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

tags: bangkok, gaslighting, intimidation, military-bases, occult, poisoning, sexual-assault, travel-memoirs

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#29

“The city centre was still crawling with Christmas shoppers looking to add to their already burgeoning piles of gifts. To Scott they were like ants at a picnic, teeming from store to store, trailing oversized carrier bags and infants behind them as they went. Scott felt alien in this environment; pulling up his hood he hurried through the crowds, dodging pushchairs, lit cigarettes and charity collection tins.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: christmas, resentment, youth

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#30

“He used his large shoulders and movements to impose his dominance over others as he strutted around but his facial expressions were a giveaway to people like Maeve who was born into a gritty group of native born fighting Irish. While many saw him as a man who worked his way up to power and influence and attained success that others fail to achieve, she saw him as a sham. He didn’t acquire loyalty by goodwill, but by corruption, fear, and loathing.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: betrayal, fiction, fiction-novel, intrigue, investigation, noir-mystery, suspense, thriller

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