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    A.R. Merrydew
    “Semilla’s Phlegm-O-Matic promptly made an observation. ‘Wow Semilla look at that shuttle.’
         ‘Keep your voice down Raymond we’re in danger,’ Semilla hissed.
         ‘Raymond?’ Burt said incredulously.
         ‘I had to give him a name, didn’t I?”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange
    tags: colonies, colony, creature, fiction, gripping, humour, mystery, planets, sci-fi, weapons
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “The final sound of the rifle shot bounced around the lake.”
    ― 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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    Dale A. Jenkins
    “Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong.  But what might have been was now hindsight—the United States was at war and was in it to win. He spoke quietly to his secretary, Grace Tully. “Sit down, Grace. I’m going before Congress tomorrow. I’d like to dictate my message. It will be short.” ”
    ― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
    tags: courageous, death, facts, hidden-agendas, leaders, lies, life, miscommunication, pearl-harbour, war
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    David A. Fiensy
    “I believe God has placed in the heart of every one of us the longing for heaven, which is actually a longing for him.”
    ― David A. Fiensy, The Journey: Spiritual Growth in Galatians and Philippians
    tags: biblical-message, faith, growth, humour, love, new-testament, spiritual
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    Bev Stout
    “He glared at her. "Aye, and you shall be the best cabin boy I have ever had or I will feed you to the sharks. Savvy?" He turned and stomped back to the
    ship”
    ― Bev Stout, Secrets of the Realm
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    David Sedaris
    “Like most seasoned phonies, I roundly suspect that everyone is as disingenuous as I am.”
    ― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
    tags: humor, humorist
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    Pablo Neruda
    “هناك، أبعدُ من عينيكِ، تحترق الأمسيات.”
    ― بابلو نيرودا, عشرون قصيدة حب وأغنية يائسة
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    Willa Cather
    “The prayers of all good people are good.”
    ― Willa Cather, My Antonia / O Pioneers!
    tags: world-view
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    Dashiell Hammett
    “I don’t get away soon I’ll be going blood-simple like the natives.”
    ― Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Star Beast
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
    tags: beauty, disorder, order
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    Thomas Mann
    “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
    ― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades
    tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing
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    Edith Wharton
    “The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands - and you hated the things it asked of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference. That was what I'd never known before - and it's better than anything I've known.”
    ― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
    tags: loyalty, responsibility, temptation
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    Mildred D. Taylor
    “He was often ridiculed by the other children at his school and had shown up more than once with wide red welts on his arms which Lillian Jean, his older sister, had revealed with satisfaction were the result of his associating with us. Still, Jeremy continued to meet us. When”
    ― Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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    Munro Leaf
    “A lot of people—young and old— have not done a very good job of taking care of our country so we can enjoy living in it. Almost everywhere today you see the marks of the stupid and the careless who are ruining what we should all take care of for our own pleasure—and our own good.”
    ― Munro Leaf, Who Cares? I Do.
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    Nancy O'Meara
    “The person at the other end is answering questions from a person she has never met and about whom she knows nothing. Good manners from you will certainly elicit a more complete response than a threatening or superior attitude.”
    ― Nancy O'Meara, The Cult around the Corner: A Handbook on Dealing with Other People's Religions
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “One thing that became very clear during my own war service is that those who are actively taking part in war-like activities very seldom hate their former enemies. The reverse is the case with a great respect developing among the veterans, even if they happened to be on opposing sides.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
    tags: american-army, dangerous, divided, division, french-army, helpless, humanity, invasion, political, vietnam
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    Karl Braungart
    “I can’t go into detail, but it’s why I went to the special meeting at the Pentagon.”
    ― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity
    tags: conspiracy, crime, desire, dynamic, espionage, identity, military, success, thriller
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    Therisa Peimer
    “Aurelia was just about to take a sip of a mimosa when Mother Guardian snatched the flute away and promptly downed the drink in one gulp. Burping unashamedly, she said, "We can't have the validity of the marriage contracts jeopardized because the bride got rat-assed on her wedding day.”
    ― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
    tags: adventure, cult, death, drama, dystopian, fiction, future, mystery, sci-fi
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    E.L. Konigsburg
    “Julian Singh,” he said, extending his hand. No one (a) introduces himself and then (b) extends his hand to be shaken while (c) wearing shorts and (d) knee socks and (e) holding a genuine leather book bag on (f) the first day of school.”
    ― E.L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday
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    E.B. White
    “A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.”
    ― E.B. White, The Elements of Style
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    Peter Benchley
    “Life's full of chances to hurt yourself or someone else [...] In the next few days, you'll have more chances to hurt yourself than most men get in a lifetime. It's learning things and doing things right that make it worthwhile, make a man easy with himself. When I was young, nobody could tell me anything. I knew it all. It took a lot of mistakes to teach me that I didn't know goose shit from tapioca.”
    ― Peter Benchley, The Deep
    tags: danger, growing-up, life, life-lessons, peter-benchley, the-deep
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  • #23
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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