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    Yvonne Korshak
    “Running out the anchor line, the pirates babbled to one another, and in the tangle of their barbaric language, Aspasia listened for one word—Athens. It lit up the darkness in her mind, like the single glint her eyes fixed on above the distant gray-green hills.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: adventure, athens, democracy, educational, evolution, fiction, greece, love, love-story, novel
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy in Saigon.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
    tags: destruction, difficulty, fighting, military, ptsd, real-life, true-story, uncertainty, vietnam, war
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    Michael Parker
    “That’s the second time you’ve apologised in less than a minute, Remo. When you have to do that to an admiral it could be your career on the line.”
    ― Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity
    tags: danger, fast-paced, fiction, kidnapping, pulp-thriller, sea, special-ops, terrorism, thriller, trauma
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    Thomas Keneally
    “To write these things now is to state the commonplaces of history. But to find them out in 1942, to have them break upon you from a June sky, was to suffer a fundamental shock, a derangement in that area of the brain in which stable ideas about humankind and its possibilities are kept.”
    ― Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List
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    Philip K. Dick
    “You mean old books?"

    "Stories written before space travel but about space travel."

    "How could there have been stories about space travel before --"

    "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    tags: mars-is-just-as-lonely, meta, science-fiction
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    Anna Sewell
    “It is good people who make good places.”
    ― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
    tags: attitude, genius-loci, goodness, people, places, spirit, warmth, welcoming
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    Omar Farhad
    “Life is a pointless suffering and death is to confirm the thought”
    ― Omar Farhad, Honor and Polygamy
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?”
    ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
    tags: belief, confidence, trust
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    “I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other...”
    ― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice
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