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Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age

by Eleanor Barraclough (Goodreads Author)

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The Business of Belonging: How to Build Communities That Grow the Bottom Line

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The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.”

Aminzul Shijir and 1 other person liked this

“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

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“But it is perhaps not such a good idea to look back — all the stories say so. Look what happened to Lot's wife. Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around — and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings?”
― Stephen King, It

tags: endings, looking-back, lot

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“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines

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“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
― Neal Stephenson

tags: bad, bad-guy, bad-person, crime, humor, motherfucker, revenge

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