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    K. Ritz
    “Mead.
    O sweet elixir,
    Ye bless the lips and steal the wits.
     ”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, dramatic, engaging, exciting, fantasy, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit
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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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    Max Nowaz
    “You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, mystery, profound, trauma
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    Steven Decker
    “As we left Hava Java, I reached into my purse and discretely pulled out the Smith & Wesson handgun, putting it in my jacket pocket and keeping my finger on the trigger.”
    ― Steven Decker, INNOCENT AGAIN: A LEGAL THRILLER
    tags: action, crime, drama, fiction, organised-crime, thriller, women-s-adventure
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Acting Rear Admiral Gillet said, “Captain Scultetus, please try to understand that Britain and Germany are at war! The HMS Armadale Castle has been ordered to wipe the Swakop River Radio station off the map!”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
    tags: drama, exciting, family, fiction, finding-happinesss, honour, living, military, philosophy, soul-searching
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    Sara Pascoe
    “When I'm hung-over I try to imagine being old and look- ing back fondly on now, on this bit I'm currently living, and how in retrospect it might seem adventurous. In the future when I only ever sit in a chair because I'm too gnarled for pleasure or movement I'll remember when I stayed out all night and had life-changing conversations and walked all the way home because I lost my phone.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo
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    “The wilderness is uncomfortable, pushes your limits and is unavoidable.”
    ― Kathryn Krick, The Secret of the Anointing: Accessing the Power of God to Walk in Miracles
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    Irène Némirovsky
    “I keep telling you, you don't pay enough attention to the minor characters. A novel should be like a street full of strangers, where no more than two or three people are known to us in depth.”
    ― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “there is this one photograph... that is just beautiful. it would be impossible to describe how beautiful it is, but i’ll try. if you listen to the song “asleep,” and you think about those pretty weather days that make you remember things, and you think about the prettiest eyes you’ve known, and you cry and the person holds you back, then i think you will see the photograph. ”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The Geneva peace accords said that it recognized the nationality and fundamental rights of the Vietnamese people including their sovereignty, their territory and unity. Due to the Geneva Conference allowing the imperialist combined forces of the Franco-USA coalition, on the one hand to hold South Vietnam under the 17th parallel and allowing the National resistance by the People of Vietnam to hold the north on the other, it stopped the Vietnamese from completely liberating their country. (Vein, 2009)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
    tags: american-army, commandos, defence, freedom, french-army, liberation, nvasion, special-forces, strength, war
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    E.B. White
    “There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.”
    ― E.B. White, One Man's Meat
    tags: assumptions, life, living, preconceptions
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    Esther Forbes
    “How old are you Johnny" she asked.
    Sixteen."
    And what's that-a boy or a man?"
    He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.”
    ― Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain
    tags: american-war-of-independence
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    Janet Fitch
    “I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I liked it when my mother shaped me this way. I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
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