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  • #1
    Charles P. Pierce
    “America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.”
    Charles P. Pierce, Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free

  • #2
    Tony Hillerman
    “Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.”
    Tony Hillerman, The Ghostway

  • #3
    James Aura
    “You will curl your lip and want to spit. But I don't care. A man can carry something like this inside him for only so long. Then it's got to come out.”
    James Aura, When Saigon Surrendered: A Kentucky Mystery

  • #4
    James Aura
    “She had a way about her that spoke of homemade bread, and caring for people, and the kind of patience that women have when they help a ewe birth a lamb, or stay up in the night with a baby calf bawling for its momma.”
    James Aura, When Saigon Surrendered: A Kentucky Mystery

  • #5
    James Aura
    “When I got to the truck, the dream-woman, the nurse was lying on the seat. She was sobbing. Well, I felt like I'd had about enough excitement for one night.”
    James Aura, When Saigon Surrendered: A Kentucky Mystery

  • #6
    James Aura
    “We sat like store mannequins, not moving a muscle, following it with our eyes. I looked for something to kill it with, but there was nothing.
    -Russell Ray Teague”
    James Aura, When Saigon Surrendered: A Kentucky Mystery

  • #7
    Alex Haley
    “Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
    Alex Haley

  • #8
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.
    Keep in the sunlight.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #9
    James Aura
    “Our editor, Harry Combs did not suffer fools gladly, although he insisted we cater to the fools that read the newspaper.”
    James Aura, The Cumberland Killers: A Kentucky Mystery

  • #10
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #11
    James Aura
    “We focused our attention on the tall businessman. His rhetoric did not soar. Even his voice was gray; bleak like a dead possum in melting, muddy snow.”
    James Aura, The Cumberland Killers: A Kentucky Mystery

  • #12
    Paul Doiron
    “Angels do not whisper in our ears. Predestination is a fairy tale, a bedtime story for adults scared of meaningless death.”
    Paul Doiron, Trespasser

  • #13
    Paul Doiron
    “Just because you're done with the past doesn't mean the past is done with you.”
    Paul Doiron, The Bone Orchard
    tags: past

  • #14
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #15
    Connie Willis
    “The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.”
    Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog

  • #16
    Yuval Noah Harari
    “You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
    Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    Connie Willis
    “Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?”
    Connie Willis, The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories

  • #20
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #21
    James Aura
    “First came the wail of a siren across the valley, and then because light travels faster than blood, we saw an explosion, and a second later we felt it and heard the ear-splitting blast.”
    James Aura, The Cumberland Killers: A Kentucky Mystery

  • #22
    Margaret Atwood
    “You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

  • #23
    James Aura
    “For most people, the internet was a thing of the past. She thought this was not all bad as it helped diminish the spread of conspiracy nonsense. It made countries easier to govern.”
    James Aura, The Hurricane Code

  • #24
    Margaret Maron
    “Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, 'I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?”
    Margaret Maron, Bootlegger's Daughter

  • #25
    James Aura
    “You’re supposed to be objective. What use is the news if it’s not objective?”
    James Aura, The Cumberland Killers: A Kentucky Mystery

  • #26
    James Aura
    “The human decision to domesticate fire was not logical, yet they did it.”
    James Aura, The Hurricane Code

  • #27
    James Aura
    “Your simulated neocortex is in a quantum computer in an underground bunker a mile north of here. Stay away from it.”
    James Aura, The Hurricane Code

  • #28
    Larry Brown
    “I can understand why people jump off bridges.”
    Larry Brown, Facing the Music

  • #29
    Larry Brown
    “After a year of therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone.”
    Larry Brown

  • #30
    Larry Brown
    “All we have to do as people is keep teaching children to read, and the rest will more than likely take care of itself.”
    Larry Brown



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