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#1

“What is an Aryan?” he would ask the group. “Blond like Hitler!”—who had dark hair. “Tall like Goebbels!” someone else would say—Goebbels was five feet five. “A perfect athletic specimen like Goering!”—who was a disgusting, fat slug.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

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#2

“He knew lounging was dangerous because he could already sense depression creeping over him like a vampire’s shadow. In the past, he’d found that the best way to combat this feeling was to keep moving, as if misery were a barnacle that couldn’t latch on to him if he didn’t sit still for too long.”
― Vivian Barz, Forgotten Bones

tags: depression-quotes, ghost-story, mental-health, mental-health-quotes, mystery-author, mystery-novels, schizophrenic, vivian-barz

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#3

“Failure was an option we simply could not afford. We had invested all our savings -our dreams and our pride- in this venture. There was no reason to turn around; there was nothing to go back to.”
― Delia Owens, Cry of the Kalahari

tags: dreams, failure, forward, no-going-back

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#4

“I wanted her to know just how much I loved her while also letting her know that she bore not one particle of blame for not loving me back.
But I wouldn’t say that. It was rosepetals I wanted to throw, not a poison dart.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

tags: love, unrequited-love

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#5

“If suffering is inevitable, if our problems in life are unavoidable, then the question we should be asking is not “How do I stop suffering?” but “Why am I suffering—for what purpose?”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

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#6

“Prisons are full of sociopaths and psychopaths, but when questioned, the imprisoned sociopath will honestly admit that they will commit any number of crimes to help a friend.

A friend will help you move; a true friend will help you move a body.

A friend will bail you out of jail; a true friend will be sitting beside you.

Who wouldn’t want to have a true friend? But they sound a lot like a sociopath.”
― Tanya Thompson, Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade

tags: friends, psychopath, psychopaths, psychopathy, sociopath, sociopaths, sociopaths-and-psychopaths, true-friends

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#7

“Ardennes. Now Bastogne is surrounded, and Germany’s recapture”
― Olivia Hawker, The Ragged Edge of Night

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#8

“Pino ignored her, focusing instead on the locomotive in an apron chugging out of the kitchen”
― Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky

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#9

“they were by secret ballot, so the cabbies could sign just to get rid of you and then vote whichever way they wanted to, and you couldn’t do anything about it. I”
― Charles Brandt, "I Heard You Paint Houses", Updated Edition: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa

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#10

“Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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#11

“And I’m stabbed.” She felt vulnerable and fought a rush of tears. “He’s not going to hurt you,” Adler said.”
― Mary Burton, Her Last Word

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#12

“It was history repeating itself. The same players, playing out a different game, with the same end, on a different stage.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Atlantis Plague

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#13

“How did we get here?' Sophie asks.
'We drove our cars,' I say, teasing.
She makes a face and signals for more wine. 'Funny,' she says. 'I mean to this place in our lives when everything seems so perfect but isn't?”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

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#14

“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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#15

“If we attempt to explain, in an easily accessible and clear way, how positive and negative actions affect the filling and decreasing of their life ether, we can state that physically it depends on their intentions.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: deepreads, dogood, karmaandintentions, lifeenergy, metaphysicalfiction, spiritualethics, thepythagorean

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#16

“We were fearfully and wonderfully created by the Creator to be unique in our own way . . .even down to our fingerprint (Psalms 139:14).”
― Octavia Yvonne Webb, Mixed Bloodline: The story of a young biracial boy overcoming racism growing up in the South doing the 1930's Jim Crow Era

tags: christian-nonfiction, encouragement, faith, identity, inspirational-reads, purpose, self-worth, uniqueness

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#17

“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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#18

“Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
            Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, tis fast in stone.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, literary-fiction, magic-cultures, mystery, sorcery, wit

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#19

“The receiving radio operator immediately said, “Please tell Sunray Delta Six that Sunray Six is being located and informed immediately. Expect his answer very soon!” A short time later, Harry Smith was summoned to the HQ Delta Company radio. He went to it and was told, “Sir, Lieutenant Colonel Townsend is waiting to speak to you.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, educational, history-resource, leaders, political-dictatorship, research, strategy, tactical, veterans, vietnam

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#20

“In a popular state the inhabitants are divided into certain classes,” Montesquieu affirmed in a Marxian manner a century before Marx! So, the popular state is a fiction; it is transient, fleeting, and for this reason — imaginable only. In its rigorous scientific sense of a class instrument, it is practically an empty matter sophism, a complete commonplaceness, an offspring of mental weakness. There is no such state! If it is a state, it is not popular! If it is popular, it is not a state yet! The State is a violent institution for social injustice generated by two main classes, which are main ones because they are at enmity… Any people closed in a state, are divided into classes. “For indeed any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich.”(Plato, The Republic). Not Marx, still Plato said the truth!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: communism, dictatorship, influence, liberty, marxism, oppression, political, radical, regime, sovereignty

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#21

“I didn’t lose him. He’s not a set of keys, or an acorn”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: animalstories, comfortreads, cozyvibes, funnykidsbook, humorouschildrensbooks, kidlit, middlegrade, naturelovers, senseofplace

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#22

“For her, it was a transaction—a weight traded for money, risk traded for survival.”
― D.L. Maddox, Stolen

tags: anxiousread, bookclubreads, crimefiction, fiction, fictionalread, moralgray, mystery, psychologicalthriller, riskandreward, survival

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#23

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: intelligence

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#24

“Don't write about Man; write about a man.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: character, the-writing-process

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#25

“This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

tags: books, escape, literature, reading, words

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#26

“It Is Our Duty To Remember”
― Steve Snyder, Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth

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#27

“whippoorwill”
― Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain

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#28

“The passion for physical comforts is essentially a passion of the middle classes: with those classes it grows and spreads, with them it preponderates.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

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