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“Trust is a strange bedfellow.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: action, adventure, death, dramatic, dystopian, fiction, good-vs-evil, science-fiction, supremacist, war

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“I can feel for anyone that is unjustly treated...and I can feel for those that injure them too.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

tags: conflicting-emotions, empathy, lover, sympathy

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“Nothing is more irritating than to hear honest writers protest about depravity when one is quite certain that they make these noises without knowing what they are protesting about.”
― Émile Zola

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“Joseph Robertson wrote in an essay on punctuation in 1785, “The art of punctuation is of infinite consequence in writing; as it contributes to the perspicuity, and consequently to the beauty, of every composition.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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“There was something that resonated on a deep… spiritual level… about cutting a man in half.”
― William Kely McClung, Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven

tags: city, miami, military, nature, southeast-asia, thief, veteran, vietnam, vietnam-war

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