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    “For your information, Dolores, Rudi gave me full leave to do what I think is best for our children.”
    ― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime
    tags: action, conquest, drama, greed, gunpowder, mysterious, orphan, truth, war, weapon
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    “Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: calculate, consider, strategy
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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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    Sybrina Durant
    “Ghel the gold horned unicorn is empathic and can sense the emotions of other unicorns. A touch of her horn on another’s heart make them feel better.  Gold has many every day uses but 80% of newly mined or recycled gold is still used in jewelry manufacture.”
    ― Sybrina Durant, Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented Alphabetically by the Metal Horn Unicorns
    tags: cute-songs, fun, insightful, magic, metals, periodic-table, resource, science, unicorns
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    “What the American people didn’t know was how aggressive the government was in protecting our defenses and creating weapons. FDR had already secretly approved the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb. And the government saw the waterfront as vital to our defenses. They feared that spies or other saboteurs would infiltrate the docks and interrupt the shipments of supplies or somehow obtain vital information about America’s secrets. They made a deal with the Mafia, specifically gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano.”
    ― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted
    tags: america, american-history, discovery, historical-fiction, historical-investigations, historical-mysteries, history-novel, war, war-time-history
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  • #6
    “The estate was immaculate, but parts of it felt unused.
    Not neglected, exactly—just sealed. Like they’d been
    closed off intentionally.”
    ― D.L. Maddox, Secrets
    tags: emotionally-charged, emotions, evocative, intrigue, redemptive, self-actualisation, struggles, tension, thrilling, unpredictable
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Ngo Diem was heard to say, “I want a repressive machine controlling the whole of the country of South Vietnam from Saigon to the remotest villages. You shall apply massacres, torture, deportations, and mass imprisonment while conducting constant raids. You shall make the population so fearful of this government that no-one shall ever dare to become a revolutionary or any other kind of outlaw!”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: band-of-brothers, guns, love, loyalty, military-budget, pilots-family, politics, poverty
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    Theasa Tuohy
    “Sarah shook her head. Babysitting was a tough job. And having kids? Playing Lady Macbeth was a whole lot easier.”
    ― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth
    tags: acting, dramatic, enemies, fantastic, great-characters, lies, lively, secrets, suspenseful, timeless
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    Max Nowaz
    “Being magnanimous in victory usually worked, but to keep abreast of the situation he had to 
pump the girl for all she knew. Was there a pang of remorse for his actions in his mind? 
Possibly, but what choice did he have? If he wanted to survive, he had no room for weakness.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: action, dark, dark-humour, drama, fiction-writing, humour, mystery, thriller
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  • #10
    Don Hynes
    “Like the ancients
    I leave no trace
    but the imprint of kindness,
    left on the souls
    I’ve dared to love.”
    ― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
    tags: attitude, blessing, education, goodness, inspiration, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting
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  • #11
    Graham Pryor
    “I should tell you that we are awakening all of the Canidae, not merely your own species. You must tell me if that is unwelcome.”
    Hell, thought Monty, shivering. All the Canidae. Wolves I can take, but foxes, jackals, dingoes, and…and…and…all those others.
    “Is that a problem?” The voice was full of concern.”
    ― Graham Pryor, Cerberus
    tags: drama, exciting, fantasy, fiction, fight, literary-fiction, love, thrilling, war
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  • #12
    Barack Obama
    “The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.”
    ― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
    tags: africa, colonialism, history
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Women
    tags: alcoholism, hedonism, nihilism
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    Jeannette Walls
    “Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.”
    ― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
    tags: life-changing-events
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    Mildred D. Taylor
    “I ain’t saying you can’t do it, Moe. Papa say you can do jus’ ’bout anything you set your mind to do, you work hard enough.”
    ― Mildred D. Taylor, Let the Circle Be Unbroken
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Selected Essays: 1917-1932
    tags: knowledge
    61 likes



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