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    Mark Ellis
    “Merlin stood up. For once, late as it was, he was pleased to see the Assistant Commissioner because he had been trying unsuccessfully to get hold of him all day. “May I introduce Detective Bernard Goldberg of the New York Police Department.”
    Merlin held out a hand to the stocky young man now standing on the AC’s right. Detective Goldberg was an inch or two shorter than Merlin, with a closely cropped head of dark-brown hair and the crumpled face of a man who might have walked into a wall.”
    ― Mark Ellis, The French Spy
    tags: criminals, curiosity, history, investigation, soviet-history, war, wartime, wwii
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    Robert Reid
    “From the surrounding oak trees it seemed as if a name was whispered. ‘He is of the trees, his name is Xylon.”
    ― Robert Reid, The Empress:
    tags: betrayal, dark, fear, hatred, lies, literary-fiction, loneliness, queen, unity, war-and-military-fiction
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    “What the American people didn’t know was how aggressive the government was in protecting our defenses and creating weapons. FDR had already secretly approved the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb. And the government saw the waterfront as vital to our defenses. They feared that spies or other saboteurs would infiltrate the docks and interrupt the shipments of supplies or somehow obtain vital information about America’s secrets. They made a deal with the Mafia, specifically gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano.”
    ― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted
    tags: america, american-history, discovery, historical-fiction, historical-investigations, historical-mysteries, history-novel, war, war-time-history
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Nguyen said, “Ho and I shall return to our positions on the deck, where we are keeping watches of two people on duty for two hours at a time.”

    He then continued, he said, “Cung, from what you have told me, you appear to be a loyal citizen of Vietnam. Yet, you are being hunted by the Vietnamese security organisations!”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer
    tags: action, battlefield, brothers, chaos, conflict, corruption, danger, peace, soldier, technical
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    “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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    “The city centre was still crawling with Christmas shoppers looking to add to their already burgeoning piles of gifts. To Scott they were like ants at a picnic, teeming from store to store, trailing oversized carrier bags and infants behind them as they went. Scott felt alien in this environment; pulling up his hood he hurried through the crowds, dodging pushchairs, lit cigarettes and charity collection tins.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: christmas, resentment, youth
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    Todor Bombov
    “… the primitive comprehension that the state property represents a social one, their identification, and their equalization  could not resist the criticism of the time. The state property is not socialism. The state-monopoly property, as it was on the both sides of the Berlin Wall and which continues to be such one even after it dropped down, is not social property. There was never and nowhere any socialism! In the twentieth century, we passed through a system of utopian socialism as proof that this was not socialism that was not possible, but the utopia of the writers before Marx and after Marx. We were visited by a utopian socialism, which at the contemporary stage is simply capitalism—state, monopolistic.”
    ― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
    tags: civil-society, democratic, freedom, justice, liberty, monopolistic, myth, oppression, society, totalitarian-system
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    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
    tags: characterdynamics, dialoguegold, literarysatire, sharethis, smalltowndiner, wryhumor
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    Mark Twain
    “The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: animals, dogs, heaven, inspirational, man, religion
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: beauty, love, sex
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    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “Education makes you humble, it doesn't make you proud.”
    ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
    tags: death, education, life
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    Fred Gipson
    “But that isn’t the only way life is. A part of the time, it’s mighty good. And a man can’t afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad…. You understand?”
    ― Fred Gipson, Old Yeller
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    A.A. Milne
    “No one can tell me, Nobody knows, Where the wind comes from, Where the wind goes.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six Deluxe Edition
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    P.D. Eastman
    “It's a party. A big Dog Party.”
    ― P.D. Eastman
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