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    Tom Baldwin
    “I’ve watched hundreds of deed transfers take place right here on the steps of the Registry,” Michele mused. “At those moments of transfer, I’ve seen in the eyes of desperate sellers an emotional reconciliation of irrevocably relinquishing a homestead, a treasured dominion, willingly or otherwise. Perhaps all these deeds, Mr. Geoffrey…perhaps they, too, have their own soul, a predilection that would tell me more than what they say if only I had the capacity to ask.”
    ― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm
    tags: adventure, deceit, drama, exciting, humour, intrigue, past, romance, romantic-literary-fiction, suspicion
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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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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “The verdict got both the fish and me off the hook.”
    ― 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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    C. Toni Graham
    “Starting the week with the wind at my back as I glide into a world of endless possibilities.”
    ― C. Toni Graham
    tags: barriers, be-proud, believe, chase-dreams, cherish, conquering, life, love, smile, soar
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    Harvey Havel
    “The orderly brandished a hunting knife from a sheath at his waist and sliced open the prisoner’s throat with it.  Warm blood cascaded out of the prisoner’s throat, some of it spraying the captain’s uniform.  The orderly waited for the prisoner to bleed to death before cutting the head clean off.  Within a few minutes, the muscle that the prisoner built on his body was carved out and thrown on the grill.  After the meat cooled, the orderly put the human steaks in front of the captain for dinner.  As the captain ate each buttery piece, he couldn’t help but compliment the orderly for a job well-done.”
    ― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
    tags: fantasy, horror, imaginative, literary-fiction, paranormal, politics, sci-fi, science-fiction, slasher
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    John Bennardo
    “If you didn't already know, game show talent works fewer days a year than almost every profession, except maybe members of Congress.”
    ― John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake
    tags: fiction, humorous, humour, literature, modern-fiction, satire, satirical, satirical-fiction, social-media, witty
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    Kyle Keyes
    “where there's a Clark, there's a Lewis”
    ― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus
    tags: fiction
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    S.G. Blaise
    “Are you telling me that they argue by fistfighting?!” I say. “How . . .? I mean, why . . .? I mean, stop this!”
    ― S.G. Blaise, True Teryn
    tags: adventure, diversity, drama, dystopian, fantasy-novel, hero, heroic, intergalactic, magical, science-adventure
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    Claudia Clark
    “Obama’s next words captured the attention of the world and the amusement of those present. As he wagged his finger at the crowd, he scolded, ‘So stop it, all of you. I know you have to find something to report on, but we have more than enough problems out there without manufacturing problems.”
    ― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
    tags: calculation, character, goals, greatness, humanity, influence, marriage, personal-goals, political, relationship
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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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    Ernest J. Gaines
    “I didn’t want to show it. Because if what he was saying was true, there wasn’t a thing I could do about it. Marshall was too big. If it was just Bonbon who wanted to hurt Marcus, you might be able to prevent that. Bonbon was nothing but a poor white man, and sometimes you could go to the rich white man for help. But where did you go when it was the rich white man? You couldn’t even go to the law, because he was the law. He was police, he was judge, he was jury.”
    ― Ernest J. Gaines, Of Love and Dust
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    Tamora Pierce
    “If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Page
    tags: kel, raoul-of-goldenlake, squire, tamora-pierce
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    William Gibson
    “[Slitscan's audience] is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.”
    ― William Gibson, Idoru
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    Herman Wouk
    “Well, normality, you know, is a fiction in psychiatry. It’s all relative. No adult is without problems except a happy imbecile.”
    ― Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Moses: God or crowd control?!?”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: humor
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    Munro Leaf
    “A lot of people—young and old— have not done a very good job of taking care of our country so we can enjoy living in it. Almost everywhere today you see the marks of the stupid and the careless who are ruining what we should all take care of for our own pleasure—and our own good.”
    ― Munro Leaf, Who Cares? I Do.
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