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#1

“She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.”
― Neil Stephenson

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#2

“The light shone on a face imprinted with more odd and unwholesome tales than a warehouse full of Bibles.”
― Neil Stephenson

tags: humor

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#3

“A hive mind is a social organization of RISTs that are capable of processing semantic memes ("thinking"). These could be either carbon-based or silicon-based. RISTs who enter a hive mind surrender their independent identities (which are mere illusions anyway). For purposes of convenience, the constituents of the hive mind are assigned bit-pattern designators.”
― Neil Stephenson

tags: cryptonomicon

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#4

“Sokolov was favorable impressed by the fact that he had not yet shit his pants. Men always made crude jokes about people pissing their pants with fear, but in Sokolov's experience, shitting the pants was more common if it was a straightforward matter of extreme emotional stress. Pants pissing was completely unproductive and suggested a total breakdown of elemental control. Pants shitting, on the other hand, voided the bowls and thereby made blood available to the brain and the large muscle groups that otherwise would have gone to the lower-priority activity of digestion. Sokolov could have forgiven Peter for shitting his pants, but if he had pissed his pants, then it really would have been necessary to get rid of him. In any case, Peter had done neither of these things yet.”
― Neil Stephenson

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#5

“The aerodynamic cowling is totally flexible, calculates its most efficient shape for the current speed and wind conditions, changes its curves accordingly, wraps around you like a nymphomaniacal gymnast.”
― Neil Stephenson

tags: motorbike, nymphomaniacal-gymnast, snow-crash

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#6

“If everyone has a vested interest in believing that they understand everything, or even that people are capable in principle of understanding it (either because believing this dampens their insecurities about the unpredictable world, or makes them feel more intelligent than others, or both) then you have an environment in which dopey, reductionist, simple-minded, pat, glib thinking can circulate, like wheelbarrows filled with inflated currency in the marketplaces of Jakarta.”
― Neil Stephenson

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#7

“Pretenses are shabby things that, like papier-mâché houses, must be energetically maintained or they will dissolve.”
― Neil Stephenson

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#8

“I watched him spread out his arms with a smile before he crashed through the table in a beautiful crescendo, the glass sounding like tinkles from a piano as its shavings glittered across the floor and sliced through his face and body.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down

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#9

“Everything is so fast and awful, isn't it, Noah?"

"The world has become like that.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down

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#10

“I wanted solitude, but a treasure like that didn't exist in the city. I only found silence in Central Park, still littered with people of course, but the only place that held moments of calm. I breathed in that wonderful silence as my pace finally slowed, and nature delighted my senses.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down

tags: nature, new-york-city

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#11

“The music grew louder, faster, as we saw an empty couch on the balcony and ran to get it, pushed aside another couple darting for the same thing, but it was ours, and we smiled wide, laughing at our fortune, our couch.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down

tags: love-story

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#12

“Hollywood is bigger down right now by sequels, by the uninspired. Well, my M.O. is a two-hour feast for your senses. That means starting the concept of filmmaking from scratch, making it your own.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down

tags: films, hollywood

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#13

“I don't make threats," she said. "I make reality.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

tags: contemporary-fiction, crime, fast-paced, murder, mystery, noir-fiction-deciet, psychological-thriller, thriller

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#14

“With the right combination of Long Island blue heavens swimming in my bloodstream, I could be perfection.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

tags: 21st-century, crime-thriller, fiction, intrigue, murder, mystery-thriller, suffering, thriller-novels

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#15

“If that was the last time we met, I was satisfied with my parting words. But if that was the case, why was I crying on the way back to the train as if I'd experienced a death?”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

tags: contemporary-fiction, crime, fiction, intrigue, manipulation, mystery, suffering, suspense, thriller

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#16

“I'd leave all my haters in my motherfucking dust.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

tags: 21st-century, action, action-thriller-fiction, favorites, fiction, intrigue, murder, mystery-thriller, thriller-novels

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#17

“Any wish fulfilled...for the right price.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins

tags: deciet, drama, exciting, fiction, intrigue, manipulation, mystery, suffering, suspense, thriller

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#18

“Honey, I'm Marilyn Fucking Monroe. And don't you forget it.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins

tags: ambition, crime, criminal, desire, fiction, mystery, power, success, tense

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#19

“Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins

tags: drama, favorites, fiction, literary, mystery, psychological, suspense, suspense-thriller, thriller

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#20

“Everybody counts, or nobody counts.”
― Michael Connelly

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#21

“There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.”
― Michael Connelly, The Brass Verdict

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#22

“There is no client as scary as an innocent man."

J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962.”
― Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer

tags: attorneys, clients, criminal-law, fear, guilt, innocence, justice, justice-system, responsibility, risk

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#23

“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."

("The Castle")”
― Michael Connelly

tags: perseverance, writing, writing-craft

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#24

“You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.”
― Michael Connelly, The Black Echo

tags: damage, injuries, psyche, ptsd, sould, wounds

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#25

“What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.”
― Michael Connelly, Trunk Music

tags: hearing, observation, reality, truth

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#26

“Love does not self-destruct; we congest it with hostile disputes and erode it with hollow assurances.”
― Kelly Markey, Don't Just Fly, SOAR: The Inspiration and tools you need to rise above adversity and create a life by design

tags: inspiration, journey, memoir, personal-account, powerful, resilience, tourism, transformation, travel

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#27

“Just as life has no quick fix; transformation lacks a flick-switch approach as well. Investing in a better version of yourself will take time but pay you rich dividends as well.”
― Kelly Markey, Don't Just Fly, SOAR: The Inspiration and tools you need to rise above adversity and create a life by design

tags: adversity, cultured, fractured-heart, journey, life-experience, memoirs, motivation, real-life, rise, understanding

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#28

“Tell your heart to keep beating and stand strong, and eventually you will bounce back to see colour in the world.”
― Kelly Markey, Don't Just Fly, SOAR: The Inspiration and tools you need to rise above adversity and create a life by design

tags: adversity, cultured, fractured-heart, journey, life-experience, memoir, motivation, real-life, rise, understanding

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#29

“Given that we all have a finite time on earth, we need to make our metaphoric transition from caterpillar to butterfly sooner rather than later.”
― Kelly Markey, Don't Just Fly, SOAR: The Inspiration and tools you need to rise above adversity and create a life by design

tags: authenticity, blessings, future, lessons, life, life-experience, purpose, relationship, thrive, vision

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#30

“Surround yourself with people who make you happy, folks who reliably care about you. They are the ones that are worthy of custody in your life.”
― Kelly Markey, Don't Just Fly, SOAR: The Inspiration and tools you need to rise above adversity and create a life by design

tags: authenticity, create, empathy, future, healing-power, influence, inspiration, relationship, resilience, thrive

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