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#1

“You're not a Quaker, Jeremy. I happen to know you put beer on your cornflakes.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, scifi-adventure

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#2

“After the front legs emerged, what looked like a quartered and bloodied cut of steak followed. This piece of steak had rich and dark fur, wet with the mare’s internal membranes that covered the whole body, but it did not have the look of a horse at all. And yet from the steak’s center came this pulsating heartbeat, as though its pace-setting qualities tried in vain to pull away or escape from its thoroughbred side.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: adult, adventure, complex, drama, griping, intrigue, literary-fiction, perspectives, revenge, thrilling

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#3

“We are God’s art. We are God’s poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: change, courage, dig-deep, don-t-judge, explore, faith, find-yourself, goal-setting, laugh, learn

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#4

“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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#5

“You sound like you’re enjoying my suffering.”
― 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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#6

“No one else could share his quandary. His agonies were a mixture of shame, of loss fueled by profoundly rooted fury—solitary burdens he had carried with him like pockets of sorrow weighing him down, forcing him to become stronger. When the Devil was gnawing at him, he’d withstood the pain.”
― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

tags: destruction, drama, exciting, fast-paced, gripping, intense, legal, suspense, thriller

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#7

“It’s incredible to reflect on how much knowledge and growth power is contained in seeds.”
― Charles Dowding

tags: gardening, growth, harvest, harvesting, herb-gardening, knowledge, organic, vegetable, vegetable-garden

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#8

“People all over the United States are ready to try to take off the unwanted weight they gained. They’re ready to start walking, jogging, riding bikes, taking exercise classes, walking the malls, or just moving more outside. They’re hoping to lose the weight they have gained. But they’ll fail, mostly.”
― Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer

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

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#9

“Tolerance doesn’t mean to accept, believe, understand, agree or ignore. Tolerance means yielding to beliefs that are not your own without judgement or condemnation.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: crossroads, explore, gratitude, journey, learn, life, opportunity, respect, satisfaction, take-risks

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#10

“I got the job as a Bingo host and did better than they imagined. Never before had they had an emcee so affable and funny, so enthusiastic to give away prizes, or so quick to make a tumor joke after calling out 'B-9'".”
― John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake

tags: celebs, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-writing, media, media-driven, modern, satirical, social-media, witty

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#11

“Don’t listen to Glennie,” Isa says and pats Arrov’s forearm—that’s as high as she can reach. Bella adds, “You’ll change back to your old and handsome self soon.”
― S.G. Blaise, True Teryn

tags: adventure, diversity, dystopian, hero, heroic, intergalactic, magical, saga, science-adventure, trilog

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#12

“We travelled from Oberau with a tourist agent, and he told us all his troubles. It seems that a tourist agent is an ordinary human man, and has feelings just like we have. This had never occurred to me before. I told him so.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Diary of a Pilgrimage

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#13

“I'm Losing Faith in My Favorite Country

Throughout my life, the United States has been my favorite country, save and except for Canada, where I was born, raised, educated, and still live for six months each year. As a child growing up in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, I aggressively bought and saved baseball cards of American and National League players, spent hours watching snowy images of American baseball and football games on black and white television and longed for the day when I could travel to that great country. Every Saturday afternoon, me and the boys would pay twelve cents to go the show and watch U.S. made movies, and particularly, the Superman serial. Then I got my chance. My father, who worked for B.F. Goodrich, took my brother and me to watch the Cleveland Indians play baseball in the Mistake on the Lake in Cleveland. At last I had made it to the big time. I thought it was an amazing stadium and it was certainly not a mistake. Amazingly, the Americans thought we were Americans.

I loved the United States, and everything about the country: its people, its movies, its comic books, its sports, and a great deal more. The country was alive and growing. No, exploding. It was the golden age of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The American dream was alive and well, but demanded hard work, honesty, and frugality. Everyone understood that. Even the politicians.

Then everything changed.”
― Stephen Douglass

tags: faith, frugality, frustration, saving

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#14

“he felt that they ruled him, even when they were far away and not thinking of him, ruled him by conditioning him in his relations to his own people. The”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

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#15

“So we children must be thankful to the imperious Dr. Young for making it possible for our parents to meet and our subsequent births.”
― Katherine Paterson, Stories of My Life

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#16

“How old are you, anyway?” she asked, squinting at him.
There was a pause. At last he said, “Why do you want to know?”
“I just wondered,” said Winnie.
“All right. I’m one hundred and four years old,” he told her solemnly.
“No, I mean really,” she persisted.
“Well then,” he said, “if you must know, I’m seventeen.”
“Seventeen?”
“That’s right.”
“Oh,” said Winnie hopelessly. “Seventeen. That’s old.”
“You have no idea,” he agreed with a nod.
Winnie had the feeling he was laughing at her, but decided it was a nice kind of laughing. “Are you married?” she asked next.
This time he laughed out loud. “No, I’m not married. Are you?”
Now it was Winnie’s turn to laugh. “Of course not,” she said. “I’m only ten. But I’ll be eleven pretty soon.”
“And then you’ll get married,” he suggested.
Winnie laughed again, her head on one side, admiring him.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

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#17

“our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

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#18

“Evil is not man-made. Evil is natural, like the sun rising each morning, the moon revolving around the earth, and the strong eating the weak.

Jeremiah Hobb”
― Frank Lambert, Cult of the Clan

tags: evil-quotes, strong-quotes, weak-quotes

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#19

“The point is to be compassionately, not cruelly, honest. Tell the person what you have heard that worries you. Allow him to respond. You may be surprised at how much sense his answers make.”
― Nancy O'Meara, The Cult around the Corner: A Handbook on Dealing with Other People's Religions

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#20

“By the dawn of the seventeenth century, the order of Stormsongs had grown both darker and more powerful, while the Holy Roman Empire they allegedly still served found itself surrounded by powerful enemies – and on the brink of collapse.”
― Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

tags: bohemian-protestants, catholic, complex, drama, fiction-writing, impactful, literary-fiction, literary-novel, war

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#21

“The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,” he murmured. Thinking of her out there on the battlefield. In his tent. What more could a woman want? Quite a lot, actually.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: action, drama, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, love, page-turner, politics, suspense

297 likes

#22

“Adnaw, I want to show the Americans that we are not stupid. Arrange for a physical examination to ensure they don’t have a tracking device under their skin.”
― Karl Braungart, Triple Deception

tags: danger, fast-paced, gambling, gripping, investigation, missing-persons, murder, suspense, truths

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#23

“Never Give Up!”
― Michael Parker

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#24

“Pretty,” she commented to herself. “Oh, why can’t all people be nice like this scenery and not make trouble?”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of The Old Clock

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#25

“Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them! Yes, until there's a war. That's when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone's dish, not only Gable's! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves — Goody, goody! — It's our turn now, to go to the south Sea Island — to make a safari — to be exotic, far-off! — But I'm not patient. I don't want to wait till then. I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

tags: activity, adventure, audience, hollywood, movement, movies, passivity, spectators, vicarious-doings, vicarious-experience, watching

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#26

“Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

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#27

“See? My plans don’t all suck. Just most of them.”
― Rachel Caine, Glass Houses

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#28

“Every parent knows that delayed obedience is really disobedience.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

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#29

“There is a lot of love in him, a lot of love in his heart... And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and no where to put it.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant

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