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#1

“My Lady, turn away; do not look into the wagon, it is too frightening for a lady to view.”
― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

tags: book-1, drama, fantasy, fiction, historical, history, intrigue, mystery, trilogy

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#2

“Coincidence is God's way of showing He cares.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

tags: faithanddoubt, fateandchance, literaryfiction, readerswhofeeldeeply, southernfiction

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#3

“The Bonaccorso brothers are serious muscle, though if they were any dumber they’d be dumber than rocks.”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

tags: black-market, destruction, dramatic, gambling, love, mob, murder, neo-noir, new-york, noir-fiction

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#4

“They passed through a marbled rotunda and Sarah gasped. Heading straight for them was a stampeding herd of skeletal animals, their bleached bones and empty eye-sockets shimmering in sunlight that flooded the vast hall from overhead windows.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

tags: drama, fiction, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, murder-mystery, mystery, noir, noir-mystery, organised-crime, secrets

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#5

“If the onset of wrinkles in middle age were referred to as laughter lines, then to look at him, Scott thought, Twinkle's life must have been hilarious. He had sharp eyes that often seemed to visually contradict the lack of intelligence that could be derived from listening to him talk. There might not be a lot to respect in Twinkle, but Scott liked him. He just didn't want to end up like him.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: descriptive-prose, empathetic

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#6

“ “Research in 2023 found that some dark chocolate bars have cadmium and lead in them. These heavy metals can mess with health, especially for kids. They can cause developmental issues and even lower IQ.”
― Sybrina Durant, Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented By The Alchemical Wizards - Book 2

tags: cadmium, foodscience, healthforkids, heavymetals, lead, sciencenews, smartsnackchoices

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#7

“Mead.
O sweet elixir,
Ye bless the lips and steal the wits.
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― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, engaging, exciting, fantasy, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit

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#8

“Gray-matter auditors stepped in and shut down my eyes, confiscated my keys.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

tags: auditors, corporategreed, officesatire, oneliners, sharethis, surrealnoir, weirdlit

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#9

“A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

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#10

“There is no word that admits of more various significations, and has made more varied impressions on the human mind, than that of liberty.” (Montesquieu) In order to exist, liberty and justice in a society, there should be equality in this society before them and together with them. Only then can we speak of humanism. Only socially equal personalities are free. And only free and equal in rights personalities could “love each other like brothers.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: communism, east-europe, effective, historical, oppressive-regime, regime, society, totalitarian-government, totalitarian-system, ussr

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#11

“Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

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#12

“Truth suffers from too much analysis.

-Ancient Fremen Saying”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

tags: introspection

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#13

“Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.”
― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

tags: courage, decision, goodkind

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#14

“If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.”
― Jack Kerouac

tags: art, creativity, literary-criticism, self-expression

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#15

“Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.”
― Ovid

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#16

“It’s a crime, the lie that has been told to generations of black men and white men both. Little innocent black children, born of parents who believed that their race had no history. Little black children seeing, before they could talk, that their parents considered themselves inferior. Innocent black children growing up, living out their lives, dying of old age—and all of their lives ashamed of being black. But the truth is pouring out of the bag now.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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