Quotes - Max Carrin (Netherlands) Showing 1-10 of 10

#1

“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

#2

“My bad, Colonel. What do you need?”
“I want to report a homicide.”
I raised an eyebrow. “Homicide? Did you kill someone?”
His eyes narrowed at my poor attempt at levity.
“Me. I’m the one who was killed.”
“Colonel, Sir, with all due respect, I really don’t have time for this kind of humor.”
”
― Behcet Kaya, Deception: A Jack Ludefance Novel

tags: action, adventure, drama, dramatic, fast-paced, investigation, mystery, thriller

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#3

“This book is dedicated to those in life whom I have met and by virtue of those encounters, have helped to shape the content herein.”
― A.R. Merrydew, From The Pen Of An Aquarian: Love, hope and darker moments

tags: poem-poetry-poet-poetry-poet, poems, poems-on-letting-go, poems-on-life, poems-on-life-inspirational, poems-on-love, poetry

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#4

“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, humour, intrigue, literature, magic, mystery, sorcery

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#5

“Life is—and we are—byproducts of combustion. Imagination turned to form and finally, memory.”
― Robert Fulghum, Uh-oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door

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#6

“He was rather dull, perhaps, but would not such wine make any conversation pleasant?”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

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#7

“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: possibility, profundity, thought

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#8

“I am magical: I can bleed for five days and not die.”
― Yann Martel, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

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#9

“This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold 107 degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge.”
― Jack London, To Build a Fire

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#10

“But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and . . .”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

tags: angels, beauty, male-beauty, sin

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