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    “The blast of hot air lifted Tazeem from his feet and threw him onto his back in the road. He blinked up into the night sky; raindrops glowed orange as they fell towards the earth.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: descriptive-prose, explosion
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    Ian McEwan
    “It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum’s sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?”
    ― Ian McEwan
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    Kathy Acker
    “Education,’ one of R’s teachers taught, ‘teaches you not to be yourself.’ But who is yourself? R decided if it or he wasn’t blood, it wasn’t anything.”
    ― Kathy Acker, In Memoriam to Identity
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    Philip K. Dick
    “They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
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    M. Agueev
    “Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that female charms, the kind that inflame the senses, are no more than kitchen smells: they tease you when you're hungry and disgust you when you've had your fill.”
    ― M. Ageyev, Novel with Cocaine
    tags: chauvinism, female-charms, lust, misogyny, sex
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    Steven Decker
    “The calming presence of the forest merged with the beating hearts of the human beings, each of whom was emanating the same peaceful energy that Emily was feeling. This is magical, she thought. I could live my life doing this. And then the moment passed.”
    ― Steven Decker, Projector for Sale
    tags: adventure, compelling, courage, dreams, emotional, fiction, reality, romance, seeking, survivor
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    Sara Pascoe
    “Maybe we can politely ignore each other forever? I think that's the mature thing to do.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo: 'Intense, also BRILLIANT, funny and forensically astute.' Marian Keyes
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “People of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could. Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline as practised by the Foreign Legion!”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: battles, death, determination, fighting, fighting-for-your-life, grit, inspiring, soldiers, veterans
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    Max Nowaz
    “He was sure people detested accountants; they were boring. In fact, he had put down his profession as an airline pilot on the form he had filled in for a dating agency. As an airline pilot you could be away just the right amount of time, when you needed a break from your love life, without facing awkward questions from her when you got back.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
    tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller
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    K. Ritz
    “Whither be the heart of Justice?
                Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
                Whither be the heart of Justice?
                Lo, tis fast in stone.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, literary-fiction, magic-cultures, mystery, sorcery, wit
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  • #11
    “I’ve seen the anointing at work time and time again—people healed, oppression lifted, and lives completely transformed in an instant.”
    ― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression
    tags: change, church, examples, family, find-god, jesus, powerful, theology, upbringing, values
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    “Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-aged to old men, drinking and cursing at the world like it was the last bus which had just left the stop without them.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: philosophical-musings, reflection
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    E.M. Forster
    “Do you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other as improper, ashamed that the same laws work eternally through both.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
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    Douglas Adams
    “If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn't exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar.”
    ― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
    tags: david-bowie, h2g2, hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy
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    Tom Sechrist
    “The pen is mightier than the sword... an considerably easier to write with. - Marty Feldman”
    ― Tom Sechrist
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    T.S. Eliot
    “It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.
    Resign yourself to be the fool you are...
    ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny...”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
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    Tim O'Brien
    “Martha shut her eyes. She crossed her arms at her chest as if suddenly cold and said she was glad he hadn't tried it. She didn't understand how men could do those things. What things? he asked, and Martha said, The things men do. Then he nodded. It began to form. Oh, he said, those things.”
    ― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
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    Ellen Raskin
    “Hey Chris, bet you don't know the Latin name of the red-headed woodpecker."

    That was a hard one. Chris had to say Melanerpes erythrocephalus very slowly.”
    ― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game
    tags: birds
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