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#1

“When I'm hung-over I try to imagine being old and look- ing back fondly on now, on this bit I'm currently living, and how in retrospect it might seem adventurous. In the future when I only ever sit in a chair because I'm too gnarled for pleasure or movement I'll remember when I stayed out all night and had life-changing conversations and walked all the way home because I lost my phone.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

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#2

“I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to stop.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: adventure, drama, fiction, genetics, love, political, sci-fi, science-fiction, supremacist, war

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#3

“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

tags: on-writing, writing

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#4

“Wild horses wouldn't draw it from you?”
― Stevenson, Robert Louis

tags: away, drag, horses, island, treasure, wild

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#5

“When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true but just put on, I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on.”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

tags: denial, denial-of-reality, dissociative-identity-disorder, faking-normal, mpd, multiple-personalities, multiple-personality-disorder, not-pretending, pretending, sybil

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#6

“Without God all things are permitted.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: god, religion

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#7

“Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers, and no doubt this applies to certain of the recollections I have gathered here. ”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

tags: memory

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#8

“Granma's name was Bonnie Bee. I knew that when I heard him late at night say, 'I kin ye, Bonnie Bee,' he was saying, 'I love ye,' for the feeling was in the words.”
― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

tags: family, love

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#9

“ In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, fictional, horror, thriller

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#10

“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, humour, intrigue, literature, magic, mystery, sorcery

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#11

“Like many weak men, he made a great ceremony of personal strength and power.”
― Tom Clancy, Debt of Honor

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#12

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

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#13

“El temor que se acumula en la mente es mucho peor que la situación que existe en realidad.”
― Spencer Johnson, ¿Quién se ha llevado mi queso?

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#14

“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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#15

“I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about all those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#16

“She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett

tags: a-little-princess

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