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#1

“This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas?”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: christmas, festive, humbug, humour, writers-life

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#2

“Dios os contempla, mierdosos, y se avergüenza de vosotros...”
― Boris Vian, El arrancacorazones

tags: dios

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#3

“Evidentemente è questa la caratteristica della città contemporanea. Puoi aver voglia di lavorarci. Ma nessuno si aspetta seriamente che tu ci viva.”
― Martin Amis, Time's Arrow

tags: città

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#4

“But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

tags: dogs-body

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#5

“To you, the fairy tale’s a cheesy medium that builds physically unsound worlds that one eventually outgrows, and to me a fairy tale is city planning.”
― Dennis Cooper, I Wished

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#6

“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”
― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

tags: empowerment, feminism, woman, women-s-strenth

2680 likes

#7

“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

387 likes

#8

“Good to evil seems evil.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

tags: good-and-evil, good-vs-evil

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#9

“Bad girls understand that there is no point in being good and suffering in silence. What good has good ever done?”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

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#10

“I came to Australia as a damaged grown up adult, and it took me years to heal, so my perspective of the national Australian pride is not full. It [assimilation] penetrates, it’s
accepted, it’s tolerated, and I think the third generation it is absorbed. I don’t know about the second generation, - Holocaust survivor, Kitia Altman”
― Peter Brune, Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66

tags: australia, culture, different-culture, documentary, fitting-in, government, moving, reception, revelatory, war

21 likes

#11

“I said, leave her alone!” Her saviour was a slim young man with blonde hair tied back in a pony tail, and even in the gloom his eyes seemed to burn with ice-cold intensity.”
― Robert Reid, The Thief

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

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#12

“Trust me Dani. You don’t want’a miss this. I’m not exaggeratin’ when I say the journey of a lifetime, of a hundred lifetimes, is just below us!”
― Steven Decker, Time Chain

tags: adventure, compelling, complex, future, lies, past, science, science-fiction, time-chain, truth

59 likes

#13

“We see the pain and the misery around the world and what the demonic kingdom and the devil and demons have done to mankind.”
― John Ramirez, Fire Prayers: Building Arsenals That Destroy Satanic Kingdoms

tags: belief, biography, freedom, historical, hope, joy, love, ministry, prayer

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#14

“Imagine someone from that future could go back in time and talk to you—someone who lives at a time in which mankind only inhabits one planet, who is arguably among the final generations of humans capable of permanently changing the future of human cultures across thousands of planets by creating a durable culture and high-fertility-rate family that carries prosocial values into the future. Why would you tell them you didn’t make an effort to fix things while one person's efforts could still make a difference? ”
― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing

tags: cultural-reactor, historically, humans, intergrational, morality, networks, non-cultivated-society, preserve, serving-society, though-provoking

55 likes

#15

“Nature . . . did not seem cruel to him then, nor beneficent, nor treacherous, nor wise. But she was indifferent, flatly indifferent.”
― Stephen Crane, Open Boat

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#16

“Tell me how can one live without daughters.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

tags: i-am-malala

23 likes

#17

“Not many people know how to make letters like this," he says. "Do you ever teach anyone?"
"Only once," I say.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

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#18

“القضاء ينبغي أن يتم، والقدر يجب أن يأخذ مجراه.”
― Homer, The Iliad

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#19

“One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.”
― Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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#20

“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

354 likes

#21

“Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

1370 likes

#22

“Medicine, law, banking--these are necessary to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for! - Mr. Keating, Dead Poet’s Society.”
― N. H. Kleinbaum

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#23

“And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.”
― Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

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#24

“The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

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#25

“here is the good news, the truth that will set you free: You don’t need their approval to be happy! So let it go! Stop wasting emotional energy on something that is never going to happen and something that isn’t necessary for you to be happy. They are miserable, but you don’t have to be. There is no sane reason for both of you to be miserable!”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

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#26

“Everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: family

122 likes

#27

“Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?”
― Paul Cude, Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past

tags: fantasy, fantasy-books, fantasy-books-humour, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-young-adult

590 likes

#28

“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

385 likes

#29

“The summer sun bowing out threw slashes of colour between the buildings. London looked big, empty, and lonely. She stood in the doorway, like a cat trying to make up its mind.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, historical-fantasy, magic, occult, supernatural, teenagers, urban-fantasy, ya-paranormal, young-adult

438 likes

#30

“An individual chooses and makes himself.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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