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    John Bennardo
    “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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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “What the hell, if you are going to roll the dice with Lucifer, I say go the distance.”
    ― 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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    Gregory Dickow
    “Christianity is not a religion. it is a relationship with God.”
    ― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose
    tags: bible, book-of-god, glory, joy, soul, spirituality, truth, values, wander, writer
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    Kirsten Fullmer
    “The mayor stood, his surprise at her interruption apparent by his twitching mustache. “You—you can’t just burst in here. Who are you?”
    ― Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street
    tags: cozy-mystery, small-town-mystery, small-town-romance
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    Michael Tobert
    “The coolies pull them across Howrah bridge, which they share with cars, trucks, bullock carts, a party of young women in saris strolling in no hurry wearing bangles on their ankles, an elephant also in no hurry, and a cow that is lying down in the middle of the road chewing lazily a booklet entitled Dr W C Roy’s SPECIFIC FOR INSANITY. The camera pauses on a portion of the half-eaten text: “Dr Roy’s insanity medicine acted a charm. I am completely cured,” says Srinath Ghosh of Bundelkund. 5 rupees per phial.”
    ― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel
    tags: calcutta, dundee, family, future, heritage, history, insight, love, past, understanding
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    Harvey Havel
    “She put all of her weight against the sill of the balcony, her lovesick heart ready and willing to join the man she loved.  She closed her eyes and pushed herself forward.  From three stories high, she plummeted to the earth.  Before hitting the ground, she swore she saw him, racing down from the heavens and lifting her up towards God’s domain where lovers never ceased to rule.”
    ― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
    tags: collection, drama, fun, intrigue, perspectives, revenge, scary, short-stories, unique, varied
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    S.W. Clemens
    “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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    Michael G. Kramer
    “After March in 1945, the Japanese felt threatened by possibility of the people of Indochina rising against them. Therefore, they stated:
    “We of the Imperial Japanese Army have only invaded other Asian countries in order to remove the European and American white man from Asia! Stick with us Japanese and together we shall make Asians great while we kick the whites out of the entire region!”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: army, battles, death, determination, family, fighting, fighting-for-your-life, front-line, pilots, soldiers
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    Charles Dowding
    “The more you harvest, the quicker and easier it becomes”
    ― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
    tags: advice, allotments, fruits, harvest, herbs, informative, organic, plants, tips, vegetables
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    S.G. Blaise
    “Rhona’s eyes glint with frustration. “I am just splendid, thank you. No need to talk about me as if I am not in the room. Save your pity for someone else.”
    ― S.G. Blaise, Proud Pada
    tags: army, attitude, courage, curiosity, excitement, fast-paced, full-on, gods, gripping, war
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    “The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull burst like a ripe cabbage showering his horrified comrades with viscous brain and bits of bone.”
    ― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
    tags: atrocities, facts, fiction, history, lies, literature, secrets, war, wartime
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    “Despite the business and auto-rickshaws and bantering Bengalis just beyond his brown front door, Sanjit cultivates a distinct learning environment and energy, one created and galvanized above the tile floors, within the thin walls, below the imperative ceiling fans, and embraced by books.”
    ― Colin Phelan, The Local School
    tags: find-oneself, indian-education, journal, life-lessons, personal-identity, philosophy, poetry, political-history, teachings, value
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    S.E. Hinton
    “I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now
    tags: death
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    Rohinton Mistry
    “After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents—a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.”
    ― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
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    John Hersey
    “And now that I think back, I realize the real gap between us lay in the fact that I, who was so proud of coming from the swift-winged world of science, was laughing at an old world where it was possible seriously to believe that men die young of the bad habit of failing to go out on a dangerous river to gaze at the earth when it turns overnight into silver.”
    ― John Hersey, A Single Pebble
    tags: chinese, old-world, translation, western-civilization
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    Jon Krakauer
    “It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque. Most of the people who live in this rugged country seem to have no desire to be severed from the modern world or the untidy flow of human progress. The last thing Sherpas want is to be preserved as specimens in an anthropological museum.”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
    tags: colonialism, culture, culture-and-imperialism, modernity, progress, sherpas
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    Walter Isaacson
    “There is something indefinable in an entrepreneur, and I saw that in Steve," he said. " He was interested not just in engineering, but also the business aspects. I taught him that if you act like you can do something, then it will work. I told him, " Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.”
    ― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
    tags: entrepreneur, influence, leadership, will
    12 likes



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