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#1

“People are becoming more and more like pets in digital cages, where the only meaning of their lives is to consume and isolate themselves from others like themselves.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

tags: digitalage, modernlifecritique, philosophicalfiction, screentime, socialcommentary, thoughtprovokingreads, wakeupcall

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#2

“Gray-matter auditors stepped in and shut down my eyes, confiscated my keys.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

tags: auditors, corporategreed, officesatire, oneliners, sharethis, surrealnoir, weirdlit

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#3

“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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#4

“Suddenly, an idea swooshed into his marsupial brain like a small propeller plane buzzing a crowd. ‘Why didn’t I think of that?”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

tags: animalstories, children-sbook, childrens, dream, funnykidsbooks, hopeful, humorouschildrensbooks, kidlit, loving, middlegrade

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#5

“While an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’” “‘It’s history, my boy.’” “The grandson comes nearer and exclaims, “‘But this is a porno site, grandpa, naked chicks, sex . . . a lot of sex!’” “‘Well, it’s sex for you, my son, but for me it’s history,’ the old man says with a sigh.” All of people in the cabin burst into laughter. “A stale joke, but a cool one,” added William More, the man who just told the joke. The navigator skillfully guided the flying disc among the dense orange-yellow blanket of clouds in the upper atmosphere that they had just entered. Some of the clouds were touched with a brownish hue at the edges. The rest of the pilots gazed curiously and intently outwards while taking their seats. The flying saucer descended slowly, the navigator’s actions exhibiting confidence. He glanced over at the readings on the monitors below the transparent console: Atmosphere: Dense, 370 miles thick, 98.4% nitrogen, 1.4% methane Temperature on the surface: ‒179°C / ‒290°F Density: 1.88 g/cm³ Gravity: 86% of Earth’s Diameter of the cosmic body: 3200 miles / 5150 km.”
― Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

tags: action, adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, machines, robots, sci-fi, science-fiction

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#6

“At what point does faith become insanity?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, magic, mystery, past, wit

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#7

“One thing I have learnt is that you may do a lot of evil things, but if you are ever afforded a chance to be good, then you should take it. You will feel better about yourself.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: action-packed, adventure, aliens, challenge, compelling, drama, fast-paced, science-fiction, struggles, thrilling

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#8

“Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

tags: action, dante, divine-comedy

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#9

“People are more than you think they are. And they’re less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen

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#10

“There is a lamp outside the church, the lamp they light for the services. There are women of the church sitting on the red earth under the lamp; they are dressed in white dresses, each with a green cloth about her neck. They rise when the party approaches, and one breaks into a hymn, with a high note that cannot be sustained; but others come in underneath it, and support and sustain it, and some men come in too, with the deep notes and the true. Kumalo takes off his hat and he and his wife and his friend join in also, while the girl stands and watches in wonder. It is a hymn of thanksgiving, and man remembers God in it, and prostrates himself and gives thanks for the Everlasting Mercy. And it echoes in the bare red hills and over the bare red fields of the broken tribe. And it is sung in love and humility and gratitude, and the humble simple people pour their lives into the song.”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

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#11

“Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She cancelled all her engauzements. She climbed over the bannistars; she gave a childy cloudy cry: Nuee! Nuee! A lightdress fluttered. She was gone. And into the river that had been a stream . . . there fell a tear, a singult tear, the loveliest of all tears . . . for it was a leaptear. But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh! I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

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#12

“Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: bureaucracy, government, taxes

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#13

“The exotic beauty and nostalgic charm of the old brick and etched-stone museum appeared to be an apparition of grander days.”
― Rich DiSilvio, The Arnolfini Art Mysteries

tags: art-lovers, art-mystery, atmospheric-setting, book-quotes, cozy-aesthetic, museum-vibes, old-world-charm, travel-reads, weekend-reads

63 likes

#14

“It is time to tell your story without feeling ashamed. This is how you heal.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

tags: emotional-healing, healing-journey, inner-child-healing, memoir, self-worth, survivor-story, trauma-recovery

130 likes

#15

“Their temporary home filled with the scent of soup, ink and fresh paper and the reassuring harmonic vibration of piano strings.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

tags: bookclubreads, familysaga, historicalfiction, literaryfiction, motherdaughter, musicinfiction, quietmoments

159 likes

#16

“He summoned you into the circle, Scott. For whatever reason, I don't know. But now you've left, you've become a loose thread. He won't sit back with the possibility you might cause his whole world to unravel around him.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: fear, impending-doom, warning

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#17

“The more you learn, the more you realize you don’t know.” ”
― Mark C. Zauderer, Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life

tags: career-advice, humility, legal-memoir, lifelong-learning, litigation, reflective-nonfiction, wisdom

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#18

“I guess it’s too much to ask for you to understand what I’m going through, Matt. What part of my daughter killing our son don’t you get?”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

tags: blame, challenges, fiction, guilt, insight, mystery, novel, suspense, thriller, tradgedy

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#19

“For a short time Alex had been a celebrity, and yet here he was still tugging away at the same thread, hoping something new would emerge.”
― Murray Bailey, The Mark of Eternity

tags: academic-mystery, ancient-secrets, archaeological-thriller, discovery, egyptology, historical-mystery, thoughtful-thrillers, thriller

39 likes

#20

“Close spacing is not crowding when light, moisture, and timing are working for you.”
― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

tags: garden-strategy, intensive-planting, kitchen-garden, no-dig, productive-gardening, small-space-growing, vegetable-garden

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#21

“Your light, Helen, is to show both peoples the enormous healing possibilities and potentials of the path of love instead of judgment and hatred. You do this simply by being who you are — a bridge of hope, dearest child.”
― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

tags: bridge-builder, character-growth, epic-fantasy, healing, heartin-fantasy, hope, love-over-hate, political-fantasy

47 likes

#22

“Praise everybody, I say to such: never be squeamish, but speak out your compliment both point-blank in a man's face, and behind his back, when you know there is a reasonable chance of his hearing it again. Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and popped it in; so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing; but it may sprout into a prodigious bit of timber.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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#23

“Asking me to sit down while I delivered the Sunday message was like asking an Italian to talk without using his hands.”
― Todd Burpo, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

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#24

“There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?”
― William S. Burroughs, Exterminator!

tags: innocent-bystanders, responsibility, voyeurism

196 likes

#25

“Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: advice, jofer, people

223 likes

#26

“It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant scum. Now, understandably, it's nearly everybody.”
― Lynne Truss, Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door

tags: good-manners

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#27

“It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

tags: heathcliff, humour, mr-darcy, snooty, wuthering-heights

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