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#1

“It just came out. A laugh. It was a laugh that came straight from my belly. I could not stop it. It came out and kept coming. I was worried that I would wake Gaston, but he did not move. I was in bed, in my pajamas, exhausted, in despair, unsure of where my baby was, and I could not stop laughing.” ”
― Douglas Weissman, Life Between Seconds

tags: adventure, danger, emotional, emotions, family-life, fantasy, literary, literary-fiction, loss

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#2

“Your Heavenly Father’s love elevates you to a place where you can dream big dreams— where you can live with purpose, unafraid.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: bible, book-of-god, church, find-god, hope, light, prayer, self-awareness, self-love

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#3

“Sustain joy by anchoring yourself with gratitude.”
― C. Toni Graham

tags: attitude, choice, education, goodness, inspiration, inspiring, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting

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#4

“My father was incredibly indecisive. As an example, take his wedding day. He couldn't decide where to sit in the getaway car, decide the fact he was supposed to be driving.”
― John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake

tags: bad-behaviour, behaviour, entertainment, fast-paced, fiction, hilarious, media-driven, social-media, society, witty

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#5

“Once inside my skull, my doctor added some salt, just to taste. He also poured some fruit into my skull – an apple, a pear, a few seedless grapes, and a ripe banana. He then used an electric blender set on its highest speed to create what he had termed ‘a yogurt parfait.’ After he finished blending the ingredients, he beckoned the other doctors and a few of the nurses to sample his new concoction.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: action, adult, complex, drama, fiction, literary-fiction, literary-short-stories, short-stories

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#6

“The big question was, what all was this society up to? They’d certainly been in and out of his office, as well as accidently running into him all around town. Had he inadvertently missed what this group of ladies knew? And worse yet, had he given himself away?”
― Kirsten Fullmer, Problems at the Pub

tags: charming, cozy-mystery, humorous, romantic, secret-society, small-town-mystery, small-town-romance, witty

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#7

“You sound like you’re enjoying my suffering.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#8

“Each day a whole world passes away, largely unappreciated, numbly relegated to obligation, commerce and routine. One day seems as unremarkable as the next. It's only through the inexorable accretion of days, weeks, months and years, that we come to appreciate with heartbreaking clarity how incredibly unique and precious each lost day has been.”
― S.W. Clemens

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#9

“They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, and so capriciously favored by the sinister flying squads of the NKVD.
Ironically, the arrest when it came did not shock Batya. He had prepared for it.”
― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

tags: criminals, curiosity, drama, epic, fiction, investigation, soviet, suspense, war, wwii

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#10

“My best seller was Golden Stream, written under my pen name of I.P. Daly.”
― Kyle Keyes, Quantum Roots

tags: scifi, scifi-adventure

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#11

“People all over the United States are ready to try to take off the unwanted weight they gained. They’re ready to start walking, jogging, riding bikes, taking exercise classes, walking the malls, or just moving more outside. They’re hoping to lose the weight they have gained. But they’ll fail, mostly.”
― Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer

tags: body, control, diabetes, fats, free-foods, health, live-life, live-longer, live-well, wellbeing

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#12

“We are aware of your association with the Russian mafia, Mr. Linkov. Of course, you do not want this publicized. It would mean the end of your diplomatic career, perhaps imprisonment.”
― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity

tags: action, drama, fast-paced, fiction, intrigue, lies, mystery, spies, thriller, thriller-novel

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#13

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

tags: love

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#14

“Long ago, when I had my Merlyn to help, he tried to teach me to think. He knew he would have to leave in the end, so he forced me to think for myself. Don't ever let anybody teach you to think, Lance: it is the curse of the world.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

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#15

“All future interpretation of Greek metaphysics, including Nietzsche's, is Christian.”
― Martin Heidegger, Mindfulness

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#16

“If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?”
― Ken Kesey

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#17

“Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.”
― D.H. Lawrence

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#18

“No foot, but strapped to his thigh was what looked like a wooden table leg. It looked ridiculous; the idea was completely idiotic. A naked pirate who couldn’t even afford a proper peg leg.”
― William Kely McClung, LOOP

tags: action-packed, ai, apocalyptic, dystopian, killer-creatures, military, sci-fi, technology, terrifying, thriller

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#19

“Trace pulled on his jeans but didn’t bother zipping them. Nor did he bother with a shirt. The sheriff smirked, scrutinizing his lack of clothing. “I can almost see why Callie is so taken with you.”
― Cricket Rohman, Colorado Takedown

tags: action, action-fiction, drama, dramatic, excitement, fiction-drama, love-story, romantic-fiction, suspense

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#20

“He wanted a stiff drink to get through the evening, for he knew they’d be wailing, and her family coming unglued.”
― Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller

tags: action-packed, conspiracies, conspire, domination, drama, fiction, plots, secrets, suspense, treachery

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#21

“Yesterday, I asked a robot, Gumball I think, do you know Murphy’s law of gravitation? It answered, ‘No, sir, I know only Newton’s and Einstein’s laws of gravitation; I don’t know Murphy’s law.’ I replied, ‘Eh, Gumball, the slice always falls with the buttered side to the floor. That’s Murphy’s law.’” Everyone burst into laughter.”
― Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan

tags: action, drama, dystopian, fiction, futuristic, machines, robots, sci-fi, science-fiction, technology

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#22

“What did Volenski know of how he stood in the eyes of the Russian police? Living mostly abroad and consorting in a great measure with his own exiled countrymen, some small degree of suspicion was bound to remain attached to his name. He was a Pole, and, being a Pole, he conspired, not because he believed in all the Utopian theories set forth by his brother conspirators, but because it was in his blood to plot and plan against the existing government.”
― Emmuska Orczy, Collected Works of Baroness Emma Orczy

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#23

“Trying to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,”
― T. S. Eliot

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#24

“ثمة فارقاً بين أن يكون لنا ضمير و أن نستعمله .و ربما بدا لنا أن بعض الناس يتصرفون دون أية روادع لكن لدى هؤلاء برأيي ضمير حي حتى ولو كان مخبأً .كما أن بعض الناس يبدون محرومين من العقل لكن الواقع أنهم لا يستخدمون عقلهم
ان العقل كالضمير يشبهان عضلة اذا لم نستعملها تضعف شيئا فشيئا”
― جوستاين غاردر, Sophie’s World

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#25

“Trading In The Zone – Master the Market With Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude” by Mark Douglas, you would agree with me that the market is just unpredictable.”
― Frank Miller, Secrets On Reversal Trading: Master Reversal Techniques In Less Than 3 days

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#26

“Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.”
― Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

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#27

“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

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#28

“Robinson had thoroughly enjoyed her evening at the opera. Her only previous experience had been a performance of Wagner, to which the Assistant Commissioner, an avid Wagnerian, had taken her a year before. It was a strange but admirable British characteristic, she had thought at the time, how little antagonism was directed against the great artistic creations of the enemy, even of Richard Wagner, the great idol of Hitler.”
― Mark Ellis, The French Spy: A classic espionage thriller full of intrigue and suspense

tags: descriptive, eye-opener, frontline-journalist, hatred, history, loss, perspectives, sacrifice, senseless-violence, violence

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#30

“The snake you don’t kill today may kill you tomorrow.”
― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

tags: action, crime, epic, fiction, fiction-writing, law, legal, suspense, thriller-novel

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#31

“Fair enough, that's what most people look for to begin with, but money can be a sliding scale, the more you have, the more you want, the more you need,' McBlane said as he sharpened the ash on the tip of his cigar into a point against the rim of the ashtray. It gave him the appearance of wielding a dagger as he gestured with his cigar holding hand.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: visual-moments

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