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#1

“You piece of shit, you need a wife; a woman’s touch in your life.’ But who would marry someone like me? Being a PI isn’t exactly the best profession to be in to attract a wife. I’ve read about too many investigators and policemen who end up divorced and I certainly fall into that category.”
― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

tags: crime-fiction

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#2

“Nearing the Riefler's big red brick house he could see the yellow light spill out on the galerie Yvonne had insisted her German husband wrap around the house. There was a tightening in Victor's chest. It happened to him whenever he got close to the Riefler's house, or church on Sunday- anytime he thought he might catch a glimpse of Celena.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

tags: captivating, drama, dramatic, fiction-writing, intrigue, literary-novel, passion, relationships, tense, torment

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#3

“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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#4

“Josh gathered his sense of injustice and faced Rodan Man-to-man, or rather, elk-to-elk, no, Netah-to-Netah.”
― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

tags: coming-of-age, danger, discovery, drama, fantasy, myth, page-turner, romance, wildlife, ya-literature

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#5

“Much of clinician burnout is due to spending time writing notes, placing orders, generating referrals, writing prior authorization letters, and creating patient communication. In other words, burnout is caused by physicians having to generate output! With the emergence of large language models that are used to train generative AI solutions, these use cases will be at the frontier of AI’s applications in healthcare.”
― Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

tags: advice, advisements, care-givers, care-givers-support, experiences, health, helpful-resources, pain, success, suffering

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#6

“Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
            Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, tis fast in stone.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, literary-fiction, magic-cultures, mystery, sorcery, wit

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#7

“Carefully, the girl skimmed her fingers across her mother's knee. It was smooth; the skin had closed across the tiny wounds like the surface of the river after you toss stones into the waves. Only you knew they were there. Unless you told.”
― Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River

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#8

“Too much protocol.”
― Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine

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#9

“it didn’t matter how hard you could swing a sword, if you couldn’t hit anything.”
― Terry Goodkind, Soul of the Fire

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#10

“I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought to guide them in such cases—viz. that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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#11

“لقد انتصرَ لأنّه عاش.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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#12

“Maybe the play wasn't about miracles. No, maybe it was about the passage of time, and the need for patience, and the ability to forgive. Maybe Shakespeare was saying that even in a world where miracles can happen, there's still going to pain, and lost, and regret. Because sometimes people die and you can't bring them back. That's what life is Joseph realized, miracles and sadness, side by side.”
― Brian Selznick

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#13

“Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

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#14

“It does little good to regret a choice. So often people say, “If only I had known,” implying they would’ve acted differently in a given situation. It is true that desires of the moment can blind one’s sight of the future. Revenge is not as sweet as the adage claims. Yet who could pass a chance to taste it? And if the chance were allowed to slip by, would the fool regret his lack of action? ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, fantasy-adventure, fascinating, fiction, humour, intrigue, journal, magic, spiritual

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#15

“Jake’s shirt and jeans gave off a business vibe with the hint of a wide range of corporate occupations from sales to IT. Only politicians and real estate agents wore a suit and tie these days. Dressed to push an agenda. A man wearing a two-piece suit and tie would be remembered and many people became guarded, sus of the wearer’s intention. Guarded meant memorable.
Blend into the environment; do not stick out.”
― Simon W. Clark, Dead Mercenary's Trail

tags: action, betrayal, conspiracy, covert, disguises, espionage, international-locations, political-thriller, spy-thriller, technothriller

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#16

“Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

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#17

“Extra”
― Andrew Clements, Lunch Money

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#18

“What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos... the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man...”
― Robert M. Pirsig

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#19

“I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.”
― Louise Fitzhugh

tags: loneliness

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#20

“O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

tags: glory, inspiration, new-day

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#21

“Nancy.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Clue of the Tapping Heels

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#22

“So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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#23

“If you wouldn’t want your mother to buy the item or the service then don’t sell it.”
― Dave Ramsey, EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches

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#24

“Of course, New Guineans tend to perform poorly at tasks that Westerners have been trained to perform since childhood and that New Guineans have not. Hence when unschooled New Guineans from remote villages visit towns, they look stupid to Westerners. Conversely, I am constantly aware of how stupid I look to New Guineans when I’m with them in the jungle, displaying my incompetence at simple tasks”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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#25

“Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.”
― John Gunther

tags: america, belief, facts, superstition, truth

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#26

“...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: ilusions, reality

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