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#1

“Catching the wrong Fish is unrewarding.”
― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

tags: action, adventure, crime, drama, exciting, literary-fiction, past, romantic, suspicion

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#2

“At first, she bucked like a wild stag beneath me, and she tried to scream, but the pillow did a good job of muffling her voice. Before long, the bucking stopped, and my wife’s corpse, blue without oxygen, appeared below me like a hideous phantom.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: fantasy, horror, imaginative, literary-fiction, paranormal, politics, sci-fi, science-fiction, slasher

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#3

“Each day a whole world passes away, largely unappreciated, numbly relegated to obligation, commerce and routine. One day seems as unremarkable as the next. It's only through the inexorable accretion of days, weeks, months and years, that we come to appreciate with heartbreaking clarity how incredibly unique and precious each lost day has been.”
― S.W. Clemens

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#4

“Death rides on all of our shoulders from the day we are born.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#5

“Ah! You speak Levitan,” the man smiled. “But you’re not from Levita I think.” Like most Levitians he was a good looking man, if perhaps a bit effete for Brown’s tastes.  “No, I lived there for a while.”  “Did you enjoy your stay?” “Up to a point. The Levitian women are very beautiful.” “Yes of course. So are the men in Levita,” the man smiled. “We used to have a cleansing programme to ensure a healthy population.” “You mean a culling policy, where you killed all the weakest members of the population.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

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

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#6

“Most people don’t know how to lose weight. They try different diets with good intentions and hope. They fail. They try again and fail. Then they often give up and return to eating for satisfaction and fulfillment.

Why have so many failed? They’ve tried cutting out sweets. That helps, but it’s only part of the cause of their weight gain. They’ve tried counting calories. That’s burdensome and, again, only part of the story. They’ve failed because no one has ever told them, in clear, everyday terms, how we all gain and lose weight.”
― Rick Mystrom

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

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#7

“The elements of the written word can be purely magical. I read and I write...I inspire and I’m living.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: attitude, choice, education, goodness, inspiration, inspiring, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting

75 likes

#8

“Feed the soil, not your plants.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

tags: gardening, harvest, harvesting, healthy-vegetable, herb-gardening, organic, sustainable, vegetable-garden

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#9

“The condition of your soul will determine the condition of your life. Because it determines how you think, what you feel, and what you choose to do.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: abmition, awakening, be-happy, believe, change, soul, spirituality, values, wander, writer

162 likes

#10

“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

170 likes

#11

“She sighed as she looked around. “Tell you what I don’t like about a place so goddamned orderly like this. As an artist . . . it’s the lines that get me. All the straight lines in the walls, on the floors, in the corners that turn into boxes—like coffins. The only way I can get rid of the boxes is to take a few drinks. Then all the lines get wavy and wiggly, and I feel a lot better about the whole world. When things are all straight and lined up this way I get morbid. Ugh! If I lived here I would have to stay drunk all the time.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

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#12

“But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

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#13

“I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?"
"No, about six months before that. Right after New Year's. We were in the Hob, eating some slop of Greasy Sae's. And Darius was teasing you about trading a rabbit for one of his kisses. And I realized...I minded.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

tags: jealousy, sweet-talk

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#14

“Jag talar inte om din bok nu, men se hur många böcker som redan skrivits om Förintelsen. Till vilken nytta? Folk har inte blivit annorlunda...

Dom kanske behöver en ny Förintelse, en ännu värre...”
― Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

tags: förintelsen, holocaust, misantropi

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#15

“That Love is all there is
Is all we know of Love,
It is enough, the freight should be
Proportioned to the groove.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: emily-dickinson, love-quotes

40 likes

#16

“A festive din now rose and echoed through the palace halls. Lighted lamps hung from the coffered ceiling rich with gold leaf, and torches with high flames prevailed over the night.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

tags: castle, descriptive, feast, gold

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#17

“God is the Cure, Love is the Answer”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, God is the Cure, Love is the Answer : A Memoir

tags: abuse, betrayal, devine, fight, god, hope, life, strength, truth, unrest

459 likes

#18

“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

167 likes

#19

“If we were a rock ‘n’ roll band,
We’d travel all over the land.
We’d play and we’d sing and wear spangly things,
If we were a rock ‘n’ roll band.
If we were a rock ‘n’ roll band,
And we were up there on the stand,
The people would hear us and love us and cheer us,
Hurray for that rock ‘n’ roll band.
If we were a rock ‘n’ roll band
Then we’d have a million fans.
We’d goggle and laugh and sign autographs,
If we were a rock ‘n’ roll band.
If we were a rock ‘n’ roll band,
The people would all kiss our hands.
We’d be millionaires and have extra long hair,
If we were a rock ‘n’ roll band.
But we ain’t no rock ‘n’ roll band,
We’re just seven kids in the sand
With homemade guitars and pails and jars
And drums of potato chip cans.
Just seven kids in the sand,
Talkin’ and wavin’ our hands,
And dreamin’ and thinkin’ oh wouldn’t it be grand,
If we were a rock ‘n’ roll band.”
― Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic

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#20

“One has to be in control, otherwise the whole dynamic becomes a total disaster.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

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#21

“dogs”
― Lois Lowry, Number the Stars

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#22

“Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables

tags: past, present, weight

67 likes

#23

“In this candid and rounded memoir, Baksi answers the questions a multitude of Larsson’s fans have already asked about his upbringing; the recurring death threats; his insomnia and his vices; his feminism”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

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