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#1

“It was as if we played chess after denying me both bishops and knights.”
― 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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#2

“Christ, I feel like a naughty schoolboy again,” said Alec as they walked into King’s Bench Walk. “We have just had a dressing-down by the headmaster. Strider could easily be a man handy with a cane.”
“That man Strider is a crook,” said Bing-Wallace. “His utterances are like the product of a performance of Joseph Pujol … Le Pétomane!”
“Who is Joseph Pujol?”
“He is a well-known French flatulist performer.”
“What?” Alec stopped dead,
“A fartist, dear boy, a performer of farts.” Bing-Wallace began to giggle, as did Alec.”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap: Book 3 in the Charlotte's War Trilogy

tags: atmospheric, complex-friendships, forbidden-romance, historical-drama, intense-dialogue, logical-deductions, passionate-encounters, post-war-healing, uncovering-lies, whodunit

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#3

“You can’t have trust without fairness”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

tags: best-work, business, empower, goals, human-resource, insightful, leader, sentiment, suboptimal, workplace-experiences

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#4

“Enraged, Marco paced back and forth, gripping the newspaper in his fist. What do these animals hope to accomplish with senseless violence? We have enough suffering on this island. Do we have to kill each other, too?”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: class-disparity, cultural-fiction, feminism-in-history, inner-turmoil, lush, perseverance, political-struggle, real-estate, social-mobility, thought-provoking

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#5

“Love is described like GOD.”
― Sara Pascoe

tags: aniaml, female-body, feminism, love

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#6

“This is a quantum universe. Everything in it is part of quantum theory, and universal consciousness is the first cause of it all. Everything is electromagnetic energy, and all of the energy patterns are held in consciousness.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

tags: collective, electromagnetic, energy-patterns, existence, frequencies, human-existence, thought-waves, universal-conciousness, universal-energy, waves

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#7

“I’m into, oh, murders and executions mostly. It depends.” I shrug. “Do you like it?” she asks, unfazed. “Um … It depends. Why?” I take a bite of sorbet. “Well, most guys I know who work in mergers and acquisitions don’t really like it,” she says.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

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#8

“Privately Jacqueline hated him as much as on the first day they had met, but she had learned that what he lacked in virility he could be made to make up in loquacity”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal

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#9

“I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.”
― Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

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#10

“The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.”
― Voltaire

tags: philosophy

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#11

“A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.”
― Michael Crichton, Next

tags: determination

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#12

“We shall now seek that which we shall not find.”
― Thomas Malory

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#13

“Let’s get to know each other. My name’s William, William More, but you can call me Willy. I’m an engineer-chemist who graduated from MIT. So . . . but you’re all alike to me . . . of course, you would be . . . you’re robots. And all your names are that sort of, um . . . codes, technical numbers . . . I need some marker where I can pick you out. Well, well, to you I’ll call . . .,” and Willy pondered for a moment, “Gumball, yes, Gumball! Do you mind?” “No, sir, actually no,” CSE-TR-03 said, agreeing with its new given name. “Ah, that’s wonderful. And then you’re Darwin,” Willy said, accosting the second robot. “Look what a nice name—Darwin! What do you say, eh?” “What can I say, sir? I like it,” CSE-TR-02 agreed too. “Yes, a human name with a past . . . You and Gumball . . . are from the same family, the Methanesons!” “It turns out thus, sir,” Darwin confirmed its family belonging. “And you’re like Larry. You’re Larry. Do you know that?” More addressed the next robot in line. “Yes, sir, just now I learned that,” the third robot said, accepted its name as well.”
― Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

tags: ai, ai-theme, artificial-intelligence, dystopian, futuristic, machine-learning, machines, robotics, science-fiction, technology

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#14

“Leaders have historically misused both religion and science equally in their inhumanity for the sake of power.”
― Guy Morris, The Image: A Quantum Portal Has Opened

tags: cautionarytale, conspiracythriller, corruptedfaith, ethics, historyrepeats, powercorrupts, weaponizedscience

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#15

“It was the tone of a woman who wrapped needles in silk.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

tags: bullying, climatic, emotionally-charged, humour, low-self-esteem, relationships, school, tense, toxic, unpredictable

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#16

“Don’t wait until something terrible happens before you want protection.”
― H. Meadow Hopewell, Rage Against the Machine

tags: ai, artificial-intelligence, cia, drama, fiction, literature, series, techno, thriller

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#17

“I don't "lol". I tried it once but it just didn't agree with me.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: cynicism, humour, life, writers-life

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#18

“Adrian blew his whistle and shouted, “Attack and put too death all those who oppose the fatherland!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

tags: find-oneself, friendships, learning, life-lessons, love, personal-identity, philosophy, teachings, truths, value

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#19

“Something was very wrong, somewhere, and if I didn’t get away soon, I feared it would be too late: I’d have no choice but to join them.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

tags: foreboding, pageturner, stakes, surrealnoir, tension, thrilleradjacent

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#20

“We are humiliated and disillusioned once again by our own countrymen because they attempt to trample on us, which increases our isolation and unimportance.”
― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

tags: agents, comic, fbi, fight, humour, love, perish, revenge, truth, war

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#21

“You sound like you’re enjoying my suffering.”
― 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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#22

“We shouldn't evaluate our leaders by how many hats they can wear on their heads... We must judge them by the amount of shoes they've worn on their feet.”
― T. Rafael Cimino, A Battle of Angels

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#23

“Anyone who says "Trust me" is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: humour, life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, writer

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#24

“An army of helpers for the twenty-eight cooks were preparing the meats and vegetables, plucking chickens, killing fresh fish and lobsters and crabs and cleaning them, doing the thousand tasks that Chinese food requires—as each dish is cooked freshly for each customer.”
― James Clavell, Noble House

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#25

“Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest. Above all, Eros (while it lasts) is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being the necessary number for Friendship, is not even the best. And the reason for this is important.
... In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, 'Here comes one who will augment our loves.' For in this love 'to divide is not to take away.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship, love

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#26

“During discussions in his office, Bradlee frequently picked up an undersize sponge-rubber basketball from the table and tossed it toward a hoop attached by suction cups to the picture window. The gesture was indicative both of the editor's short attention span and of a studied informality. There was an alluring combination of aristocrat and commoner about Bradlee: Boston Brahmin, Harvard, the World War II Navy, press attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, police-beat reporter, news-magazine political reporter and Washington bureau chief of Newsweek.

-- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward”
― Carl Bernstein, All the President’s Men

tags: journalism

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#27

“We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
― Eric Carle

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