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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
    tags: choke, disease, doctors, life, medical-training, medicine, palahniuk, physicians, waiting
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    “A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: adversity-quotes, bird-quotations, bird-quotes, challenges-quotes, dove, eagle-quotes, fly-quotes, guru-quotes, inspirational-quotations, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspirational-quotes-about-life, inspirational-quotes-for-women, inspirational-quotes-motivation, life-lesson-quotes, life-lessons-quotations, life-lessons-quotes, life-quotations, life-quote, life-quotes, life-quotes-and-sayings, life-quotes-inspirational-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, motivation-quotes, motivational-quotations, motivational-quote, motivational-quote-of-the-day, motivational-quotes, motivational-quotes-for-runners, motivational-quotes-for-women, obstacles-quotes, overcome-quotes, overcomer-quotes, overcoming-adversity-quotes, overcoming-challenges-quotes, overcoming-fear-quotes, overcoming-obstacles-quotes, overcoming-pain, overcoming-quotes, perseverance-quotes, persistence-quotes, rise-above-quotes, sage-quotes, storm-quotations, storm-quotes, storms-of-life-quotes, struggles-quotes, sun-quotes, sunshine-quotes, trouble-quotes, wisdom-quotations, wisdom-quote, wise-quotations, wise-quotes, wise-sayings-quotes, wise-words-quotes
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    Anthony Doerr
    “All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Brianna Labuskes
    “The men who sought violence didn't understand that while swords could destroy bodies, a pen could destroy a nation.”
    ― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
    tags: books, historical-fiction, world-war-2
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    Thomas Pynchon
    “Lovely morning, World War Two.”
    ― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
    tags: world-war-2
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    Elizabeth Berg
    “There are guys bleeding to death who don't know it, they're smiling, they're talking, they don't feel pain because they're in shock, they ask you for some water and then they're dead. On D-day I ran past a guy lying on his spilled guts with his eyes closed and his thumb in his mouth. Eisenhower's speech had been read to us over the loudspeaker by our commander when we crossed the channel that morning. What valor and inspiration were in his words- all about how we were embarked on a great crusade, that the hopes and prayers of a liberty loving people were going with us....I got gooseflesh when he asked for the blessing of almighty god on this great and noble undertaking. But how to reconcile that with spilled guts on a beach and flies in the eyes of some dead nineteen year old kid who traded his life for some words on paper?”
    ― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue
    tags: world-war-2
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “When Hitler marched
    across the Rhine
    To take the land of France,
    La dame de fer decided,
    ‘Let’s make the tyrant dance.’
    Let him take the land and city,
    The hills and every flower,
    One thing he will never have,
    The elegant Eiffel Tower.
    The French cut the cables,
    The elevators stood still,
    ‘If he wants to reach the top,
    Let him walk it, if he will.’
    The invaders hung a swastika
    The largest ever seen.
    But a fresh breeze blew
    And away it flew,
    Never more to be seen.
    They hung up a second mark,
    Smaller than the first,
    But a patriot climbed
    With a thought in mind:
    ‘Never your duty shirk.’
    Up the iron lady
    He stealthily made his way,
    Hanging the bright tricolour,
    He heroically saved the day.
    Then, for some strange reason,
    A mystery to this day,
    Hitler never climbed the tower,
    On the ground he had to stay.
    At last he ordered she be razed
    Down to a twisted pile.
    A futile attack, for still she stands
    Beaming her metallic smile.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: eiffel, eiffel-tower, eiffel-tower-poem, eiffel-tower-poems, france, french, french-history, heroism, hitler, i-love-france, i-love-paris, la-dame-de-fer, paris, poem, poetry, poetry-quotes, resistance, resistance-movement, towers, victory, world-war-2, world-war-two
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    Anne Frank
    “In the distance a clock was tolling 'Be pure in heart, be pure in mind!”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: confinement, courage, heart, mind, solitude, world-war-2
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    Suzanne Kelman
    “The darker the night, the brighter we shine”
    ― Suzanne Kelman, Under a Sky on Fire
    tags: historical-fiction, world-war-2
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    Anne Frank
    “One minute I'm longing for peace and quiet, and the next for a little fun. We've forgotten how to laugh.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: diary-entry, fun, have-fun, laughter, world-war-2
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    Kent Giles
    “Some tyrants are brought to justice by those upon whom their boots have tread. Others simply fade into the fog of war and disappear like with the wind.”
    ― Kent Giles, Operation Grey Wolf: Not all heros wear the victor's uniform.
    tags: christian, espionage, history-war, hitler-s-germany, spy-thriller, thriller-action-packed-suspense, war, world-war-2
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    Anne Frank
    “Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: anne-frank, diary, world-war-ii
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    “Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.”
    ― Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
    tags: death, dreams, happy, nightmares, reality, soldier, war, world-war-ii
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    Elizabeth Wein
    “Look at me!’ I screeched. ‘Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! You’re not questioning me now, this isn’t your work, I’m not an enemy agent spewing wireless code! I’m just a minging Scots slag screaming insults at your daughter! So enjoy yourself and watch! Think of Isolde! Think of Isolde and watch!”
    ― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity
    tags: enemy, fighting, fury, torture, war, world-war-ii
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    Vasily Grossman
    “Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.”
    ― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
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    Craig L. Symonds
    “Alas, all that sound and fury disguised the fact that on Omaha Beach at least, the bombs fell too long, the rockets fell too short, and the naval gunfire was too brief.”
    ― Craig L. Symonds, Neptune: Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings
    tags: military-history, world-war-ii
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    “No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.”
    ― Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
    tags: soldier, war, world-war-ii
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    Teresa R. Funke
    “One day this war will end. And when it does, Tule Lake will be just a memory.”
    ― Teresa R. Funke, The No-No Boys
    tags: children-s, japanese-internment, life, remembering, war, world-war-ii
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    “A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.”
    ― Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
    tags: memoir, third-reich, world-war-ii
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    George Orwell
    “The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: pacifism, world-war-ii
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    “I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.”
    ― Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
    tags: death, fortune, life, love, soldier, survive, war, world-war-ii
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    “The Royal Navy had not built its magnificent reputation over the centuries by avoiding battle.”
    ― Arthur Nicholson, Hostages To Fortune: Winston Churchill And The Loss Of The Prince Of Wales And Repulse
    tags: british-history, naval, world-war-ii
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    Anne Frank
    “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: anne, beauty, frank, happy
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    Charles Bukowski
    “and the color in my eyes
    has gone back into the sea.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
    tags: charles-bukowski
    74 likes

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    Anthony Doerr
    “So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Anthony Doerr
    “Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Anthony Doerr
    “Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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  • #28
    Anthony Doerr
    “Is it right,” Jutta says, “to do something only because everyone else is doing it?”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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  • #29
    Anthony Doerr
    “Sometimes the eye of a hurricane is the safest place to be.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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  • #30
    Anthony Doerr
    “The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the globe . . . The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
    72 likes



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