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    K. Martin Beckner
    “Some of the more superstitious townsfolk even believed she was a witch. The fact that she had four dead husbands lined up in a neat row at the local Promise Land Cemetery was not an argument in her defense.”
    ― K. Martin Beckner, Chips of Red Paint
    tags: cemetery, widow, witch
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    K. Martin Beckner
    “I guess I'm supposed to sit here in this oven like it's 1950, hoping I don't go to hell for stealing a church fan.”
    ― K. Martin Beckner, Chips of Red Paint
    tags: air-conditioning, church-fan, hot-weather
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    K. Martin Beckner
    “I could just hear my mom now, "You know those old candy cigarettes are bad for you. Next thing you know, you'll be drinking alcohol, and they'll find you dead in a ditch somewhere. I'll never be able to show my face in this town again.”
    ― K. Martin Beckner, Chips of Red Paint
    tags: candy-cigarettes, parental-humor, sarcasm
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    K. Martin Beckner
    “You can lock a lion up in a room, if you want to, but you'll still hear it growling and clawing to get out.”
    ― K. Martin Beckner, A Million Doorways
    tags: animals, insightful-quote, inspirational, lions, living-life, mistakes, motivational-quotes, wisdom, wise-quotes
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    K. Martin Beckner
    “But forever was a useless term, relevant only for the dead.”
    ― K. Martin Beckner, A Million Doorways
    tags: afterlife, death, eternity, hereafter, life, loss
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    K. Martin Beckner
    “Initially they waited with hope, but as each hour passed, hope slipped away like the wind, the wind that as a small boy Ethan had once tried to capture with his tiny fingers.”
    ― K. Martin Beckner, A Million Doorways
    tags: death, hope, loss, wind
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    K. Martin Beckner
    “That scream left her mouth and entered my head, where it's been ever since, sometimes waking me up at night.”
    ― K. Martin Beckner, A Million Doorways
    tags: fear, scream, screaming
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    K. Martin Beckner
    “The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.”
    ― K. Martin Beckner, A Million Doorways
    tags: art, life-changing, math, mathematics, personal-growth, science, self-discovery
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    K. Martin Beckner
    “People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.”
    ― K. Martin Beckner, A Million Doorways
    tags: clocks, monuments, reflections-on-life, time, time-quotes, time-travel, watches
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    K. Martin Beckner
    “She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since, finally catching up to her.”
    ― K. Martin Beckner, A Million Doorways
    tags: choices, decisions, good-and-evil, healing, life-lessons, lifechanging, making-decisions, mistakes, regret
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    K. Martin Beckner
    “I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.”
    ― K. Martin Beckner, A Million Doorways
    tags: dreams, intentions, quilts, reflection, regret, success-quotes
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    K. Martin Beckner
    “Why do we as humans always tend to remember the worse things about people? We may know someone for many years, know them as vibrant and healthy, yet when they fall ill and pass away, we can only picture them at their sickest, as though they were born and lived their whole lives wearing a death mask.”
    ― K. Martin Beckner, A Million Doorways
    tags: death-and-dying, death-mask, death-of-a-loved-one, death-quotes, grief, healing, living-life, loss, love, memories
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    K. Martin Beckner
    “Miss Green can call a turd a rose if she wants, but that don't mean people's going to be lining up to smell it.”
    ― K. Martin Beckner, A Million Doorways
    tags: funny-quotes, humorous, rose, sarcasm, sarcastic-humor, turd
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