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    “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
    ― Sid Ziff
    tags: bad-reviews, book, humorist, misattributed-dorothy-parker, wit
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  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
    tags: genius, humour, oscar-wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
    Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality
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  • #5
    Dave Barry
    “What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.”
    ― Dave Barry
    tags: columnist, death, humorist, outlook
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  • #6
    Helen Keller
    “Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: educator, inspirational
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  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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  • #8
    Douglas Adams
    “Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
    tags: humor, novelist, science-fiction
    2677 likes

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  • #9
    Tom Upton
    “I really should come with a warning label.”
    ― Tom Upton
    tags: humor
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  • #10
    Tom Upton
    “I have never been reduced to begging somebody to leave me alone, but in your case I’ll make an exception.”
    ― Tom Upton, Vanished
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  • #11
    A.F. Stewart
    “Sulphurous wind gusted in his wake; the dust of the street swirled and the folds of his black coat flapped against his thin body.”
    ― A.F. Stewart, Killers and Demons
    tags: book-quotes, books, fantasy, horror, horror-authors
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  • #12
    Bruce Lee
    “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: advice, bruce-lee, inspirational
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  • #13
    Bruce Lee
    “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
    ― Bruce Lee
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  • #14
    Michael Bialys
    “The Worst thing that Good could do to Evil was ignore it...”
    ― Michael K. Bialys, The Chronicles of the Virago--The Novus: Book I
    tags: bialys, fantasy, fiction, teen-read, ya, young-adult
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  • #15
    Love is not a forest fire that burns intensely, hotly and out of control for
    “Love is not a forest fire that burns intensely,
    hotly and out of control for a brief moment until,
    its expendable fuel spent,
    it sputters,
    seeking in vain for something else to consume,
    to sustain itself before, finally,
    it dies:
    cold, black ash the only evidence of its passing.

    Love is, instead, a campfire:
    it provides ample heat and comfort
    to the twosome who sit before it,
    and although its flames may at times wane,
    a well-tended campfire’s embers can be nurtured and fanned
    until the flames once again dance brightly and cheerfully,
    providing comfort to the couple
    who cherish the gentle warmth it ministers.”
    ― J. Conrad Guest, January's Paradigm
    tags: inspirational-quotes, love-quotes, novel-quotes
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  • #16
    A.F. Stewart
    “The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.”
    ― A.F. Stewart, Gothic Cavalcade
    tags: book, gothic-cavalcade, horror, horror-romance, opening-line, paranormal-romance
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  • #17
    A.F. Stewart
    “I look at the others, simpering courtiers and visiting dignitaries, all unsuspecting of what is to come. A merciful man should spare them, but I had mercy cut out of me at a young age.”
    ― A.F. Stewart, Ruined City
    tags: af-stewart, curse, magic, ruined-city, wizard
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  • #18
    A.F. Stewart
    “Shine and shimmer my Harvest Moon,
    illuminate the shadows in the sky.”
    ― A.F. Stewart, Reflections of Poetry
    tags: af-stewart, moon, poem, poetry, poetry-quotes, reflections-of-poetry
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  • #19
    A.F. Stewart
    “She holstered her weapon, raising the hem of her skirts and stepping lightly around the dead bodies.”
    ― A.F. Stewart, Mechanized Masterpieces: a Steampunk Anthology
    tags: anthology, classic-literature, spy, steampunk
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  • #20
    A.F. Stewart
    “Follow those rats! They may lead us back to Muggins!”
    ― A.F. Stewart, Mechanized Masterpieces: a Steampunk Anthology
    tags: anthology, classic-literature, dickens, steampunk
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  • #21
    A.F. Stewart
    “You’ll have to do better than that chaps, if you want to kill me!”
    ― A.F. Stewart, Mechanized Masterpieces: a Steampunk Anthology
    tags: classic-literature, london, spy, steampunk
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  • #22
    A.F. Stewart
    “As they walked, it seemed almost every building had some similar contrivance as decoration, adorning the street in a cacophony of clangs, bangs and whirs. The street’s surroundings danced with steam and smoke, the scent of oil and grease its perfume.”
    ― A.F. Stewart, Mechanized Masterpieces: a Steampunk Anthology
    tags: af-stewart, anthology, classic-literature, mechanical, science-fiction, steampunk
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  • #23
    A.F. Stewart
    “She gritted her teeth. The man dances like a clod. I’d rather dance with Mr Jenkins, who can barely move.”
    ― A.F. Stewart, Christmas Lites III
    tags: christmas, christmas-eve, fantasy, ghosts, victorian
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  • #24
    A.F. Stewart
    “I’m Detective Piper of the Fairyland Metro Police, and I've been called in to investigate the incident of the missing frog prince…”
    ― A.F. Stewart, Fairy Tale Fusion
    tags: book-quote, fairy-tale, fairytale, fantasy, fantasy-fiction, frog-prince, quote
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    A.F. Stewart
    “I marched to the head Elf. “Where’s the frog?”
    ― A.F. Stewart, Fairy Tale Fusion
    tags: elf, fairy-tales, fairytale, frog-prince
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    A.F. Stewart
    “Yes sir, the fish was left in place of the crystal ball. It's been bagged and tagged for analysis.”
    Great. Now we have another red herring on our hands.”
    ― A.F. Stewart, Fairy Tale Fusion
    tags: crystal-ball, fairy-tale, fairy-tales, fairytale, fish, red-herring
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  • #27
    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections
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  • #28
    A.F. Stewart
    “I told you. I’ve been watching.” She twirled, her arms outstretched. “Watching, watching, watching.”
    ― A.F. Stewart, Killers and Demons II: They Return
    tags: child, dark-fantasy, dollmaker, horror, horror-fiction, rain, short-story, watchers
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    A.F. Stewart
    “Ashes, ashes.” Her whispered words of an old rhyme smashed through the silence as thunder, and in unison, the shadow figures answered.
    “We all fall down.”
    ― A.F. Stewart, Killers and Demons II: They Return
    tags: killer, murder, retribution, shadows, short-story, torment
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    A.F. Stewart
    “So, I poisoned his coffee this morning and watched him drink it.”
    ― A.F. Stewart, Killers and Demons II: They Return
    tags: bad-marriage, horror, killers, murder, poison
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