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  • #1
    Max Nowaz
    “Somebody always had to pay, and he was glad it was not going to be him. Meanwhile he had managed to ruin the perfect marriage by turning Dick into a crayfish and making Rachael think that he had run off with another woman.”
    Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

  • #2
    Carolyn M. Bowen
    “He motioned for Elpidio to sit down after watching him pace the room in circles. Elpidio pulled out a chair and admitted, 'I've messed up in more ways than I can count.”
    Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller

  • #3
    Todor Bombov
    “Yesterday, I asked a robot, Gumball I think, do you know Murphy’s law of gravitation? It answered, ‘No, sir, I know only Newton’s and Einstein’s laws of gravitation; I don’t know Murphy’s law.’ I replied, ‘Eh, Gumball, the slice always falls with the buttered side to the floor. That’s Murphy’s law.’” Everyone burst into laughter.”
    Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan

  • #4
    William Kely McClung
    “No foot, but strapped to his thigh was what looked like a wooden table leg. It looked ridiculous; the idea was completely idiotic. A naked pirate who couldn’t even afford a proper peg leg.”
    William Kely McClung, LOOP

  • #5
    Yvonne Korshak
    “We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty years. An argument requires a measure of equality between those in the dispute and Samos is not the equal of Athens.”
    Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

  • #6
    Boris Pasternak
    “Then untruth came to the Russian land. The main trouble, the root of the future evil, was loss of faith in the value of one’s own opinion. People imagined that the time when they followed the urgings of their moral sense was gone, that now they had to sing to the general tune and live by foreign notions imposed on everyone.”
    Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

  • #7
    Judith Viorst
    “I hope the next time you get a double-decker strawberry ice-cream cone the ice cream part falls off the cone and lands in Australia.”
    Judith Viorst

  • #8
    Paullina Simons
    “Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won’t you, and I’ll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everybody does.

    But my innocence is gone forever.”
    Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman

  • #9
    Anne Rice
    “Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been, heard vague incantations, felt the heat of raging fires on my face. And they didn't come out of him, these visions. Rather I drew them out on my own.
    Yet I never had Nicolas, mortal or immortal, been so alluring. Never had Gabrielle held me so in thrall.
    Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this."
    — Lestat de Lioncourt”
    Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

  • #10
    Tom Robbins
    “The most important thing in life is style. That is the style of one s existence the characteristic mode of one s actions is basically ultimately what matters. For if man defines himself by doing then style is doubly definitive because style describes the doing. The point is this happiness is a learned condition. And since it is learned and self generating it does not depend upon external circumstances for its perpetuation. This throws a very ironic light on content. And underscores the primacy of style. It is content or rather the consciousness of content that fills the void. But the mere presence of content is not enough. It is style that gives content the capacity to absorb us to move us it is style that makes us care.”
    Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

  • #11
    Therisa Peimer
    “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

  • #12
    “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

  • #13
    Merlin Franco
    “Swim, crawl, stagger, walk, bend, stagger and gone – that’s life in simple terms, and all that matters here is how well we fought.”
    Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding

  • #14
    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “All happened so damn fast,” he said. “’Phone call here after she arrived. Her mom and dad were just after leaving Halifax…ten cars, twelve maybe, made it onto the CBC News.”
    Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

  • #15
    “Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #16
    “Life was about making sense out of the insensible.  A ball of fire out of a clear blue sky? Must’ve been a meteorite, maybe debris from an airplane. Random flashes of light and color at night? A transformer blew up, you must’ve been dreaming, you’re talking crazy, quiet down, take your meds.”
    Edward Williams

  • #17
    Robert         Reid
    “To Audun’s amazement, as he spoke the words the staff came alive and red sparks tumbled down and over the wood. The Empress’s face paled. The courtroom froze in stunned silence, and then erupted with a hubbub of noise.”
    Robert Reid, The Thief

  • #18
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “He didn't take care of you; you had to take care of yourself.”
    Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry

  • #19
    Ralph Ellison
    “Nor could I see any reason for allowing our more chastened view of political possibility (not too long before I began this novel A. Phillip Randolph had to threaten our beloved F.D.R. with a march on Washington before our war industries were opened to Negroes) to impose undue restrictions upon my novelist’s freedom to manipulate imaginatively those possibilities that existed both in Afro-American personality and in the restricted structure of American society. My task was to transcend those restrictions.”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #20
    Robert Penn Warren
    “Have you ever
    Stared into the owl's eyes? They blink slow, then burn:
    Burn gold in the dark inner core of the snow-shrouded cedar.”
    Robert Penn Warren, Or Else--Poem/Poems 1968-1971
    tags: owls

  • #21
    Walter Isaacson
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. —ALBERT EINSTEIN, IN A LETTER TO HIS SON EDUARD, FEBRUARY 5, 1930”
    Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe

  • #22
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.”
    Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

  • #23
    Emmuska Orczy
    “... you know my belief in bald-headed Fortune, with the one solitary hair. Well, I meant to grab that hair...”
    Emmuska Orczy



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