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#1

“Thatched huts of mud sit humped in rows. Between the rows, a stagnant stream of sewage stews like thick soup bubbling in the clotted heat. Mosquitoes swarm. Garbage rots. Parvati gathers her sari about her and steps as lightly as she can down this gutter of filth. The boy stops outside one of the huts. Parvati and Sunil push aside the sacking that is over the doorway, stoop and step down onto a mud floor. Inside, there is no window, no light and no air. Only heat. Parvati puts her hand to her long elegant throat. Above her, one end of the roof is sagging as if about to collapse.
‘Bustee, very good,’ says the boy smiling.”
― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

tags: cultural, cultural-heritage, heritage, historical-fiction, history, insight, love, multi-layered

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#2

“Keep an open mind and try some new methods.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

tags: climate, four-seasons, gardening, harvest, harvesting, healthy-vegetable, plant-guide, seasons, sustainable

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#3

“The orderly brandished a hunting knife from a sheath at his waist and sliced open the prisoner’s throat with it. Warm blood cascaded out of the prisoner’s throat, some of it spraying the captain’s uniform. The orderly waited for the prisoner to bleed to death before cutting the head clean off. Within a few minutes, the muscle that the prisoner built on his body was carved out and thrown on the grill. After the meat cooled, the orderly put the human steaks in front of the captain for dinner. As the captain ate each buttery piece, he couldn’t help but compliment the orderly for a job well-done.”
― 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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#4

“As I sat dumbfounded, seemingly paralyzed in my corner, resorting to my old, reliable strategy of scribbling when unsure of how to respond to Sanjit, Sanjit appended his counsel with a dose of silence – one reminiscent to that of a few days prior. The students looked upward and downward, fans to notes to pens to toes, outward and inward, peers to souls, and of course, toward the direction of the perceived elephant in the room, Sanjit’s books. Simultaneously, Sanjit confidently and patiently searched among the students before finding my eyes; once connected, the lesson moved forward.”
― Colin Phelan, The Local School

tags: betterment, indian-education, journal, learning, life, personal-identity, poetry, soul, truths, value

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#5

“Paul, tell him you need to talk to international security advisors. Briefly explain the army asked you to act as a temporary diplomat. You don’t have to give the details. Now, what are your calendar plans?”
― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

tags: cia, cold-war, conflict, dynamic, government, identity, iraq, jeopardy, series

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#6

“If you didn't already know, game show talent works fewer days a year than almost every profession, except maybe members of Congress.”
― John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake

tags: fiction, humorous, humour, literature, modern-fiction, satire, satirical, satirical-fiction, social-media, witty

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#7

“Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.”
― C.Toni Graham

tags: affirmations, author, c-toni-graham, commitment, inspirational, ya-author

700 likes

#8

“Your Heavenly Father’s love elevates you to a place where you can dream big dreams— where you can live with purpose, unafraid.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: bible, book-of-god, church, find-god, hope, light, prayer, self-awareness, self-love

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#9

“It was amazing how a crisis could concentrate some minds while others went to pieces. Things had gone disastrously wrong in the last few days for Adam. His only worry before finding the book had been how to keep his girlfriend Linda without marrying her in the process. A contest he had lost.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

444 likes

#10

“They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: dear-john, love, nicholas-sparks, romance, the-notebook

7060 likes

#11

“A denial heralded the thrice crowing of a cock, and an insincerity was like the kiss of Judas.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: denial, hyperbole, judas, rejection

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#12

“Trust your intuitive heart. How often have you said to yourself, after the fact, “I knew I should have done that”? How often do you intuitively know something but allow yourself to think yourself out of it?”
― Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff 2015 Day-to-Day Calendar

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#13

“La Terre est un gâteau plein de douceur.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les fleurs du mal

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#14

“With love, one could glow. One did not need the intense flame after all. Now”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven

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#15

“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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#16

“My deepest desire is to be so intimately acquainted with Him that when we finally meet one another face to face, He and I will not be strangers, no not us!”
― Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

tags: bible, christian, faith, god, knowledge, love, prayers, prophetic, spiritual, teachings

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#17

“Science Fiction, is the last great escape.”
― A.R. Merrydew

tags: ai, ai-theme, artificial-intelligence, cyberpunk, futuristic, robotics, techno, technology

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#18

“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: adventure, danger, drama, emotional, emotions, family, fiction, literary, literary-fiction, loss

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#19

“Scott could feel the contents of his stomach flip over and over on themselves. He turned to the side and retched, frothy yellow bile spilled out onto the newspaper covered floor, filling the room with the putrid stench of previously ingested alcohol.

'Look's like someone can't hold their drink,' McBlane said, and Dominic and Shugg laughed.

Scott was still staring at the steam rising from his evacuated stomach contents as he heard the hammer fall. The dull crack of bone splintering under its weight.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: murder, prose, visual-moments

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#20

“Listen to your kuya, sister. Got three type kilikili.” He raises his finger. “One, that kano armpit smell like butter, burger, dollar; two, that Chinese intsik one smell like noodles, siopao, yuan; three, that bumbay one bad smell like roti, curry, rupee. Next time, find a kano who smells like butter, burger, or dollar. Curry not good. Rupee also not good, ba.”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

tags: asian-fetish, colorism, discrimination-quotes, hidden-racism, philippines, racism-in-the-east, racism-quotes, satire-fiction, southeast-asia, white-fetish

35 likes

#21

“Jimmy’s dog tag clinked as he almost slid right into her. Teenagers wore dog tags in case New York was bombed and they needed to be identified if killed or injured. Mrs. McCorkle, the O’Shaughnessy’s immediate next door neighbor, had insisted on a dog tag for Jimmy.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: america, discovery, drama, fiction, historical-fiction, historical-investigations, historical-mysteries, history, history-novel, war

142 likes

#22

“He set his feet. As Billy Martin scrambled away, the big Russian bore in, eyes glittering, and lips pulled back.”
― Paul A. Barra, Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller

tags: 20th-century-fiction, atlantic-coast, fisherman, fishermen, journey, long-island, ocean, sea, travelling, world-war-i-historical-fiction

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#23

“If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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#24

“Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

tags: logic, scientific-method

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#25

“Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.”
― Aldous Huxley, Time Must Have a Stop

tags: facts-wisdom

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#26

“You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

tags: inspirational, motivational

171 likes

#27

“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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#28

“No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.”
― John Stuart Mill

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