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    Tom Baldwin
    “Immediately after that fate-filled evening in May, the phone booth in its entirety had been confiscated by the Homicide Unit as embodying significant criminal evidence of murder. More accurately, though, the booth was like an envelope encapsulating the entire crime scene, including splattered skull fragments.”
    ― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm
    tags: crime, epic, fiction-writing, iction, law, legal, lies, thriller-novel, trust
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!” the American Lieutenant General “Iron Mike” O’Daniel also shared that opinion.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
    tags: educational, entertaining, eterans, factual, indochina-war, insightful, leaders, political-dictatorship, united
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    Max Nowaz
    “I wanted to thank you for saving my life. I am still puzzled about your motives
though. Was it revenge against Zedan for rejecting you?”
“You insult me. It seems that you think of everybody in the same lowly terms you
think of yourself. If there is anybody I should hate for Zedan rejecting me, it should be
you. He was only doing what is expected of him in our society.”
“You mean you don't hate me?” This was a new revelation to Brown. It worried him.
He was used to hate, he could deal with it, but this he could not understand, he had used
the girl ruthlessly and yet she did not hate him.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: action, action-and-adventure, action-thriller, favourite-books, suspense, thriller, thriller-writing
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    Michael Tobert
    “The street outside is empty, lit only by a half moon; yet factory engines beat in the background and the working day is about to begin. Maggie steps out of the tenement and suddenly the street begins to fill with women, some running, some pulling their jackets around them, some lighting pipes, some, like Maggie herself, taking a pinch of snuff. From other tenements come other women, and soon all merge into one, like a herd of cattle off to market, clopping over the stone pavements and the cobbles, lowing with last night’s news.”
    ― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel
    tags: cultural, cultural-heritage, heritage, historical-fiction, history, multi-layered
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    Carolyn Cutler Hughes
    “When we see a door closed very tight, God sees a window right in our sight.”
    ― Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye
    tags: be-happy, believe, change, courage, explore, faith, find-yourself, goal-setting, positive, young-readers
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    S.W. Clemens
    “Each day a whole world passes away, largely unappreciated, numbly relegated to obligation, commerce and routine. One day seems as unremarkable as the next. It's only through the inexorable accretion of days, weeks, months and years, that we come to appreciate with heartbreaking clarity how incredibly unique and precious each lost day has been.”
    ― S.W. Clemens
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    Harvey Havel
    “She is the kind and friendly sort, but I’m an old man at this point, so it would be useless and somewhat illegal if I asked her out.”
    ― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
    tags: action, adult, complex, drama, fiction, griping, literary-fiction, short-stories
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    Rick Mystrom
    “How We Gain and Lose Weight
    To understand how we gain and lose weight, we need to start with insulin. Medical researchers and internal medicine doctors almost universally agree that the amount of insulin a person produces determines weight gain and weight loss. For example, Gary Taubes, a medical researcher and recipient of multiple awards from the National Association of Science Writers, refers to insulin as “the stop-and-go light of weight gain and loss.” 
     
    Produce more insulin—you will gain weight. Produce less insulin— you will lose weight.”
    ― Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer
    tags: active, diabetes, diet-book, food-choices, health-coach, lifestyle, recipes, sugar-control, weight-loss, weight-management
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    Kyle Keyes
    “where there's a Clark, there's a Lewis”
    ― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus
    tags: fiction
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    S.G. Blaise
    “You are so much like your mother. Stubborn and relentless when you’re focused on something.”
    ― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian
    tags: dimensions, fantasy-fiction, fiction
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “As a child I scribbled; and my favorite pastime during the hours given me for recreation was to ‘write stories’. Still, I had a dearer pleasure than this, which was the formation of castles in the air – the indulging in waking dreams – the following up trains of thought, which had for their subject the formation of a succession of imaginary incidents.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Gail Carson Levine
    “Everyone dies. You needn't go on about it so.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine, Fairest
    tags: death, dying
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    Maya Angelou
    “The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Edwin A. Abbott
    “With us, our Priests are Administrators of all Business, Art, and Science; Directors of Trade, Commerce, Generalship, Architecture, Engineering, Education, Statesmanship, Legislature, Morality, Theology; doing nothing themselves, they are the Causes of everything worth doing, that is done by others.”
    ― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.”
    ― George B. Shaw
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: growing-up, life
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