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  • #1
    Gary Clemenceau
    “Americans have a love affair with weak coffee.’ ‘And you’re a coffee expert, too,’ Gwen said, cutting a thick slice of apple pie.”
    Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

  • #2
    Todor Bombov
    “This acute, “a selfdissolving contradiction,” Marx had very precisely seen and foreseen that “it establishes a monopoly in certain spheres and thereby requires state interference.” This contradiction “reproduces a new financial aristocracy” (how much Marx was right!), no matter it will call itself Communist Party of Soviet Union or DuPont Financial Circle. It reproduces “a new variety of parasites . . . , a whole system of swindling and cheating by means of corporation promotion, stock issuance, and stock speculation.”
    Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

  • #3
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Satan’s breath be damned, the nasty beast is still in there.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

  • #4
    H. Meadow Hopewell
    “When we cross the threshold of good to evil, we become deranged.”
    H. Meadow Hopewell, Rage Against the Machine

  • #5
    Michael G. Kramer
    “  “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He then ran to where his scrape was and returned with the weapon.”
    Michael G. Kramer

  • #6
    “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

  • #7
    Guy  Morris
    “We are greater than our problems and stronger than our adversaries, but these are the times that try a man to determine his core truths, and his faith.”
    Guy Morris, Swarm

  • #8
    Robert         Reid
    “Raimund was terrified. He might be a thief, but he was not a murderer. Blindly he ran from the house, and he kept on running until the sounds behind him died away.”
    Robert Reid, The Emperor

  • #9
    Judith Viorst
    “Some days are like that. Even in Australia.”
    Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

  • #10
    William Gibson
    “Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
    William Gibson, Neuromancer

  • #11
    Suzanne Collins
    “Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"
    He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?"
    I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #12
    Rick Warren
    “Because God is with you all the time, no place is any closer to God than the place where you are right now.”
    Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

  • #13
    Jim Fergus
    “Franchement vu la façon dont j'ai été traitée par les gens dits "civilisés", il me tarde finalement d'aller vivre chez les sauvages.”
    Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

  • #14
    Jean M. Auel
    “Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.”
    Jean M. Auel, The Mammoth Hunters



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