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Dave Secker

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Dave’s Quotes

“Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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“The tragic sense of life in Don Quixote is also the faith of Moby Dick. Ahab is a monomaniac; so is the kindlier Quixote, but both are tormented idealists who seek justice in human terms, not as theocentric men but as ungodly, godlike men.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

tags: great-books

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“This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, engaging, exciting, fantasy-fiction, fiction, historical-fantasy, literary-fiction, literature, sorcery

819 likes

“The face that was engulfed in sadness just a few moments ago was now having a diabolical glow.”
― Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

tags: acceptance, discovery, emotional, freedom, gripping, joy, lust, romance, sex, transformation

143 likes

“Before going to breakfast, you are in your room experiencing the gongs of a classic religious
bell, a unique and cuddly invitation to the morning meditation session. In ten minutes it will be 7:00 a.m.—dawn’s brisk reminder that life will never be easy. Mornings are a bit cruel.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God