Otha Turko

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Otha’s Quotes

“Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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“When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.”
― Alexander Hamilton

tags: avarice, empire, government, government-corruption, greed, rise-and-fall

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“Although enemy forces had overrun the mortar and some gun positions, they did not have everything their own way.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: documented, factual, indochina-war, insightful, recount-of-war, united, unity, unrest, warring, world

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“Now I shore as the devil won't waste no time tootlin' him. You know me better'n that. You know I'm made outen whale-bone and hell.'
'Ain't the whalebone gittin' a mite limber?'
''Tis, but the hell's hot as ever.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

tags: boldness-despite-age, humor

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“I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

tags: action, dramatic, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-novel, mystery, noir-mystery, nvestigation, thriller

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