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    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
    “This sounds admirable! I do so much admire what you are doing. Using this wonderful old house.”
    ― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness
    tags: alone, haunted, hostile, illusion, mystery, sadness, tragedy, trickery, unusual, vatican-archives
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    “This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas?”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: christmas, festive, humbug, humour, writers-life
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “I prefer death to dishonor for me and my child.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood
    tags: compelling, danger, different-worlds, escape, fear, intrigue, power, secrets, twists, unexpected
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    Behcet Kaya
    “Even now, at this very moment, I feel like he’s going to pop up somewhere, laugh wholeheartedly, and say, ‘Hey everyone, I’m still here. This was all just a big practical joke.”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Deception: A Jack Ludefance Novel
    tags: drama, excitement, fiction, fiction-novel, insight, mystery, noir-mystery, thriller, unpredictable
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    Natalie Babbitt
    “Now, remember Winifred, don't bite your fingernails. Don't interrupt when someone else is speaking, and don't go down to the jailhouse at midnight to change places with Prisoners”
    ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
    tags: humor
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    Naomi Klein
    “It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving door between corporate and political elites who combine their power to eliminate workers as an organized political force. The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.”
    ― Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and not recognize him.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, The Lives of Christopher Chant
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    Robert Penn Warren
    “For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.”
    ― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
    tags: travel, west
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    Herman Wouk
    “The Germans were the bad children of Europe, Jastrow argued: egotistic, willful, romantic, always poised to break up faltering patterns of order. Arminius had set the ax to the Pax Romana; Martin Luther had broken the back of the universal Church; now Hitler was challenging Europe’s unsteady regime of liberal capitalism, based on an obsolete patchwork structure of nations.”
    ― Herman Wouk, The Winds of War
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once. We shall not know what to join on to, what to cling to, what to love and what to hate, what to respect and what to despise. We are oppressed at being men -- men with a real individual body and blood, we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalised man. We are stillborn, and for generations past have been begotten, not by living fathers, and that suits us better and better. We are developing a taste for it. Soon we shall contrive to be born somehow from an idea. But enough; I don't want to write more from "Underground.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “The final sound of the rifle shot bounced around the lake.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow
    tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel
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    Behcet Kaya
    “Jack. You called? What’s up, buddy?”
    When he calls me Jack, I know he is worried or anxious about something. Otherwise, it’s either Ludicrous or Swamp. Not sure where the ‘buddy’ came from. That was a new one.”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Murder in Buckhead
    tags: action, adventure, danger, fast-paced, fiction-novel, insight, suspense, thriller, unpredictable
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    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
    “Alisha was now sitting in a shabby armchair with her face buried in a tissue. ‘It’s when someone is kind,’ she whispered, ‘You can keep going until someone is kind.”
    ― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness
    tags: betrayal, bible, dark, demon, fear, frightening, kindness, psychic, thrilling, vatican
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: art, arts-and-humanities, creative-process, writing
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    John Fowles
    “The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash.”
    ― John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
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    Robert Frost
    “I may return
    If dissatisfied
    With what I learn
    From having died.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: away, death, humor, life, life-well-lived, wisdom
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    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “And don’t limit poetry to the word.
    Poetry can be found in music, a photograph, in the way a meal is prepared
    —anything with the stuff of revelation in it. It can exist in the most
    everyday things but it must never, never be ordinary. By all means, write
    about the sky or a girl’s smile, but when you do, let your poetry conjure up
    salvation day, doomsday, any day. I don’t care, as long as it enlightens us,
    thrills us and—if it’s inspired—makes us feel a bit immortal.”
    ― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
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    Emem Uko
    “She was knowingly punishing herself. That was the only reasonable explanation. There was no use in acting naive. What happened earlier in the day was proof that she was going to give in to his flirtation. It appeared she'd thrown caution to the wind and opened her arms to embrace everything that could go wrong in her life. What's one more problem to add to the pile?”
    ― Emem Uko, The Place That Gave
    tags: flirting-with-fire, love-quotes, romance-book-quotes
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    Władysław Szpilman
    “Why did this war have to happen at all? Because humanity had to be shown where its godlessness was taking it.”
    ― Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
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