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    Max Nowaz
    “Ah! You speak Levitan,” the man smiled. “But you’re not from Levita I think.” Like
most Levitians he was a good looking man, if perhaps a bit effete for Brown’s tastes. 
“No, I lived there for a while.” 
“Did you enjoy your stay?”
“Up to a point. The Levitian women are very beautiful.”
“Yes of course. So are the men in Levita,” the man smiled. “We used to have a
cleansing programme to ensure a healthy population.”
“You mean a culling policy, where you killed all the weakest members of the
population.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: dark, dark-humour, drama, fiction, mystery, thriller
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “I watched her undress with moonlight shivering across the room from behind sheer curtains that moved with the currents from the hearth fire.”
    ― 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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    James Fenimore Cooper
    “But might is right, according to the fashions of the 'arth; and what the strong chooses to do, the weak must call justice. - Natty Bumppo”
    ― James Fenimore Cooper
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Western civilization, it seems to me, stands by two great heritages. One is the scientific spirit of adventure—the adventure into the unknown, an unknown that must be recognized as unknown in order to be explored, the demand that the unanswerable mysteries of the universe remain unanswered, the attitude that all is uncertain. To summarize it: humility of the intellect.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
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    Michael Chabon
    “Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation.”
    ― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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    Lawrence Hill
    “The misfortune of those women was my good luck, their misery my escape.”
    ― Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes
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    Graham Greene
    “Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?”
    ― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy in Saigon.

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: destruction, difficulty, fighting, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty, vietnam, war
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    “Imagine your worst day, multiply it by a hundred, and pray to your God
    that you never experience what some of the people in this war zone go
    through, everyday, without any hope of it getting better. Ever. Compared
    to these people, every day, no matter how bad, is the best day ever. I
    know nothing about pain, nothing about suffering and hopefully never will.”
    ― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever
    tags: biography, dreams, events, journey, life, life-journey, memoir, travel, true
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    Ajay Agrawal
    “Before machine learning, multivariate regression provided an efficient way to condition on multiple things, without the need to calculate dozens, hundreds, or thousands of conditional averages. Regression takes the data and tries to find the result that minimizes prediction mistakes, maximizing what is called “goodness of fit.”
    ― Ajay Agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
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    M.R. Noble
    “For a second, fire flared inside of him, not like mine, but the fire of a man about to lose control.”
    ― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes
    tags: avenger, dark-magic, falsely-accused, fantasy, magical-world, mythical-creatures, on-the-run, romance, underworld, vampires
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    Karl Braungart
    “We found an American soldier. He is with us right now. I performed the steps of initial drugging. Minutes ago, I gave him an injection to calm him and reverse the drowsy state of mind. He is doing better.”
    ― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity
    tags: cold-war, conflict, diplomats, dynamic, identity, iraq, jeopardy, military, series
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    Jules Verne
    “Réfléchi! Est-ce que j’ai du temps à perdre? Je trouve l’occasion d’aller faire un tour dans la Lune, j’en profite, et voilà tout. Il me semble que cela ne mérite pas tant de réflexions.”
    ― Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humor
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    “Vicky became more serious and her tone more reflective as she remarked, "Life has so much pain that one needs a catharsis. I don't mean escape. You don't escape in books. On the contrary, they help you to realize yourself more fully. Mon Dieu, I'm glad I have them. When I find myself in a situation in which I'd rather not be - because of the perculiar circumstances of my life - I have this outlet. You may think me tres superieure but I'm not really, I am just what I am and live the way I like.”
    ― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
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    Thomas Harris
    “He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
    tags: hannibal, heart, heartless, heartlessness, horror, human-nature, monster, murder, psychopath, psychopaths, serial-killer, soul, the-silence-of-the-lambs
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, An Apology for Idlers
    tags: inspiration, intelligence, smile
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    Peter Benchley
    “That's the only hitch in learning: it's humbling. The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Anyway, all that's a long way around saying that it's crazy to do things just to prove you can do 'em. The more you learn, the more you'll find yourself doing things you never thought you could do in a million years.”
    ― Peter Benchley
    tags: knowledge, learning, life-lessons, peter-benchley
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