Jonas Gallagher

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“Santa Fe’s night usually held a scatter of voices, a stray laugh, a dog bark; tonight the silence carried weight, like the city itself was holding its breath.”
― D.L. Maddox, Stolen

tags: atmosphericreads, desertnoir, intense, mustread, mystery, nightreads, senseofplace, slowburnsuspense, thrillerbooks, thrilling

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“My grandmother said, ‘It doesn’t really matter where you had to go, where you got the ring, or where you played the Super Bowl, all that matters is that you put in the work, you deserved it, and you earned it.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

tags: community-building, death, drama, eccentricities, fiction, friends, friendship, fun, humour, life

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“ How many times had she heard her father tread on the old baseball analogy, if you don't swing at the third strike, there's no chance of hitting the ball.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

tags: baseballbooks, bookclubquotes, comingofage, historicalfiction, lifelessons, readerswhofeeldeeply

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“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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“This book was under arrest, along with its author. This event occurred on March 27, 1986. During that time, the totalitarian system in East Europe was called socialism and even by the scientific nonsense and absurd names of Communism and Communist system. In this system, the official ideology was allegedly Marxism, but really it could not endure any Marxist criticism. Since this “socialist” system was afraid of the weapon of criticism, it applied criticism of the weapon against its own citizens, as Marx would have said.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face