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    “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
    tags: bitterness, cruelty, ironies
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    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
    “She ran down the street and round the corner and up two more streets and crossed the road. ‘Will I be safe from him?’ the girl had said. And will I be safe from Samuel? She reached her car and threw her bag on the front seat and sat holding the steering wheel. Where to go, where to run to?”
    ― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness
    tags: beyond-the-grave, evil, fear, ghost, haunted, heart-breaking, loss, struggles, unusual, vatican-archives
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    Rebecca Harlem
    “The face that was engulfed in sadness just a few moments ago was now having a diabolical glow.”
    ― Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac
    tags: acceptance, discovery, emotional, freedom, gripping, joy, lust, romance, sex, transformation
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    Mike Martin
    “You speak rabbit?” asked Princess Sophie.
    “Of course,” said Lady Ariana. “And cat, dog, mouse, pig, and chicken. Fish, too. I am a magician, after all.”
    ― Mike Martin, Princess Sophie and the Christmas Elixir
    tags: adventure, children-s-fiction, christmas-stories, fantastical, happy-endings, heart-warming, imagination, love-and-light, mystical-world, talking-animals
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    A.R. Merrydew
    “The demise of the human race rests mainly on the shoulders of stupidity, and the abuse of power in the hands of those we have elected.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew
    tags: abuse-of-power, ai, ai-theme, artificial-intelligence, cyberpunk, futuristic, machine-learning, machines, science-fiction, techno
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    Adam Scott Huerta
    “Stepfather?" "It means he fucks your mum and isn't really your dad.”
    ― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black
    tags: absurd, courage, drug-use, emotional-depth, introspective, manipulation, satire, surrealism, technology, vivid
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    Oliver Sacks
    “I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going with our powers of language, consciousness of self, and autobiographical memory.”
    ― Oliver Sacks
    tags: storytelling
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “The boy who rode on slightly before him sat a horse not only as if he'd been born to it which he was but as if were he begot by malice or mischance into some queer land where horses never were he would have found them anyway. Would have known that there was something missing for the world to be right or he right in it and would have set forth to wander wherever it was needed for as long as it took until he came upon one and he would have known that that was what he sought and it would have been.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
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    Rebecca Skloot
    “As one of Henrietta’s relatives said to me, “If you pretty up how people spoke and change the things they said, that’s dishonest. It’s taking away their lives, their experiences, and their selves.” In”
    ― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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    Euripides
    “فالإله إن كان حقاً إلهاً لا يحتاج إلى أي شئ آخر. إن هي إلا خرافات المنشدين البائسة.”
    ― Euripides, Herakles
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    Jane Smiley
    “I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.”
    ― Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
    tags: cancer, depression
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Prof. Wheeler was called away last night so I took over his course in mechanics for the day. I spent all last night preparing. It went very nicely and smoothly. It was a good experience---I guess I'll do a lot of that.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
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