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    S.E. Stitcher
    “You know I’ve seen a lot of evil,” Kozlowski replied. “But the Four Horsemen? The Apocalypse? Nope. Never worked anything like this. Try not to vomit all over yourself.”
    ― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher
    tags: apocalyptic-suspense, crime-thriller, dark-comedy, fbi-procedural, gallows-humor, serial-killer-thriller, thriller-readers
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    Fons Burger
    “This is biodiversity: a delicate web of life that we are slowly and systematically dismantling.”
    ― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations
    tags: biodiversity, climate-awareness, ecology, environmental-nonfiction, nature-writing, planetary-boundaries, planetary-destruction, planetary-health
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    Anastasia Pash
    “Prepare to experience a paradigm shift.”
    ― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules
    tags: capsule-method, confident-travel, intentional-living, packing-system, style-upgrade, travel-mindset, travel-transformation
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    “Scott could feel the contents of his stomach flip over and over on themselves. He turned to the side and retched, frothy yellow bile spilled out onto the newspaper covered floor, filling the room with the putrid stench of previously ingested alcohol.

    'Look's like someone can't hold their drink,' McBlane said, and Dominic and Shugg laughed.

    Scott was still staring at the steam rising from his evacuated stomach contents as he heard the hammer fall. The dull crack of bone splintering under its weight.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: murder, prose, visual-moments
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    Mark Ellis
    “Poland would rise again like a phoenix from the ashes.”
    ― Mark Ellis, In the Shadows of the Blitz: A deeply captivating classic crime thriller
    tags: fiction, historical-fiction, historical-thriller, hope, polish-history, resistance, thriller, world-war-2
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    Behcet Kaya
    “You piece of shit, you need a wife; a woman’s touch in your life.’ But who would marry someone like me? Being a PI isn’t exactly the best profession to be in to attract a wife. I’ve read about too many investigators and policemen who end up divorced and I certainly fall into that category.”
    ― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate
    tags: crime-fiction
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    Joseph A. Anderson
    “Atom, all life and reality as we know it is created by consciousness… your dream made it probable that we would find life,”
    ― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b
    tags: beautiful-writing, dream-logic, emotional-sci-fi, hope-after-loss, human-condition, inner-worlds, literary-sci-fi, loss-and-healing, lyrical-sci-fi, quote-of-the-day
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    Günter Grass
    “Over and over, author and book remind me of how little I understood as a youth and how limited an effect literature may have. A sobering thought.”
    ― Günter Grass, Peeling the Onion
    tags: autobiography
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “For on Cardinal Rohan saying to me that the Italians did not understand war, I replied that the French did not understand politics.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    William Faulkner
    “You can't. You just have to.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Everything rests on the poisoned wine. If it were just the queen, I could force it down her gullet, but Declan Broekhart would run me through with that damned ceremonial sword, and if his wife's stares were daggers, he'd be dead already. ”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Airman
    tags: airman, humor
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    Bryce Courtenay
    “As Klipkop pulled the big mitts off my hands I suddenly felt light, as though I was going to float away. It was a wonderful feeling. It was the power of one stirring in me.”
    ― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
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    Michael Pollan
    “Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup”
    ― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
    tags: food, plant-based-foods, whole-food
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