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#1

“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: philosophical-musings, reflection

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#2

“The craggy lines that made up the character in his face now seemed like scars of defeat, inflicted on him over time.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: defeated, philosophical-reflection

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#3

“Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: bitterness, cruelty, ironies

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#4

“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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#5

“I had so much fun writing this book and I want readers to have fun also. A Passion for Prying is a feel-good, fun read. It's like eating a delicious, sinful hot fudge sundae--pure fun and indulgence.”
― Nancy Mangano, A Passion For Prying

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#6

“The pup had peed on a Palm Springs golf course, ordered off the menu at Lazy Dog Café and sailed to Catalina Island dressed in a fuchsia bikini. Spoiled in style.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

tags: manipulation, murder, mystery

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#7

“The belief that time heals most traumas is, I fear, not to be relied upon.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: literary-fiction, memory, psychological-fiction, quiet-reflection, regret, thought-provoking, trauma-and-healing

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#8

“I have often reflected that people who say “times have changed” usually live as though they had not.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

tags: book-club-reads, changing-times, dry-wit, fiction, fiction-writing, human-nature, literary-fiction

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#9

“I also fear an attack directly upon us which shall be considerably aided by the French colonists! I therefore support your plan to act first and stage a preemptive strike against the French by launching “Operation Bright Moon”, which is now the code name for the Japanese coup d ětat which will disarm the Vichy French Forces by or during the 9th of March 1945!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: destruction, difficulty, fighting, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty, vietnam, war

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#10

“Oskar Scultetus said, “Two of my men have been ordered to cut two of the guy wires holding the transmission tower in place, and they are already doing so using oxy-acetylene torches. When they have done it, the tower will fall!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: action, ancestry, drama, family, fiction, historical, learning, powerful, truths, war

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#11

“After World War Two, the Australian army had been re-organised into its peace-time army status. The army was primarily three battalions which together with supporting units, formed a regiment and the battalions making up the regiment were identified by both their number and the title of the regiment. This meant that the First Battalion Royal Australian Regiment was identified by the initials of 1RAR. The two other battalions were identified as 2RAR or 3RAR. At the height of Australia’s commitment to the Vietnam War (Second Indochina War) Australia had a total of nine battalions which were later called the First Division.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: entertaining, factual, indochina-war, insightful, united, unity, unrest, warring, world

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#12

“The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: battles, death, determination, fighting, fighting-for-your-life, grit, inspiring, veterans

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#13

“Snow laden trees,
streets washed clean,
the timeless hymnal
open to the sky
in the deep throated
song of winter.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

tags: chances, change, compassion, completion, confidence, destiny, dig-deep, love-yourself, power, pride

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#14

“There is the land
green and rising
and there is the heart
empty of longing,
with room at last
for silence.
”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

tags: crossroads, explore, gratitude, journey, learn, life, opportunity, satisfaction, values, wander

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#15

“Then we will not speak
nor write a single word
for on that surging tide
silence will prevail.
”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

tags: acceptance, accomplish, ambition, barriers, be-happy, be-proud, believe, change, cherish, leadership

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#16

“Welcome the womb, seed and flower, welcome the timeless, welcome the hour.
Welcome the grieving, all who mourn, welcome the earth, welcome the dawn.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

tags: contemplativewriting, griefandhealing, mourningandhope, poeticprayer, poetry, sacredearth, spiritualreflection, timelessbeauty

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#17

“That kind of leader usually manages to show up whenever there’s a culture in crisis. People get scared stupid, and they listen to anybody who sounds like he has a plan to get them out of the jam they’re in.”
― N.S. Wikarski, The Mountain Mother Cipher

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#18

“In Hebrew, the word “Jerusalem” meant City of Peace. Never was any metropolis on earth more inappropriately named.”
― N.S. Wikarski, The Arkana Mysteries: Omnibus Three: Books 6-8

tags: dark-irony, historical-thriller, jerusalem, political-suspense, quoteoftheday, religious, thriller

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#19

“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
― Anthony Burgess

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#20

“Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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#21

“Pero hermanos, este morderse las uñas acerca de la causa de la maldad es lo que me da verdadera risa. No les preocupa saber cuál es la causa de la bondad, y entonces, ¿por qué quieren averiguar el otro asunto? Si los liudos (individuos) son buenos es porque les gusta, y ni se me ocurriría interferir en sus placeres, así que lo mismo deberían hacer en el otro negocio. Y yo soy cliente del otro negocio.”
― anthony burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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#22

“Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

tags: a-clockwork-orange, anthony-burgess, book-quotes, books

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#23

“Have you by chance brought some real British tea? Twining’s? Or from Jackson’s in Piccadilly?”
― Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers

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#24

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

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#25

“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#26

“I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say 'Holden Caulfield' on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'Fuck you.' I'm positive, in fact.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#27

“Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: death, flowers

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#28

“Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden, writing

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#29

“Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn't allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it. But when it's over and you're alone, you begin to see that it wasn't just a movie and a dinner together, not just watching sunsets together, not just scrubbing a floor or washing dishes together or worrying over a high electric bill. It was everything, it was the why of life, every event and precious moment of it. The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss. And the ache is always there, but one day not the emptiness, because to nurture the emptiness, to take solace in it, is to disrespect the gift of life.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Hours

tags: bereavement, grief

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#30

“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
― Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing

tags: friendship

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