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#1

“When first I arrived in the woods, I became aware of how unprepared I was for what I was about to experience."聽”
― John-Paul Cernak, The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower

tags: earth, environmental, generational, hippie, magic, mystery, native-american, natural-world, past-lives, unfaithfulness

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#2

“I was able to shake off the near-death experience, and whether it was true or not, I was able to use it as some sort of moral validation as to the importance of my existence, or at least the importance of me completing this job, because clearly God, the universe or whoever understood that there was no other human being alive on this earth stupid enough to take this job.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

tags: doctors, domestic, domestic-thriller, fiction, health, medical, medical-fiction, medical-thriller, patients, ruin

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#3

“Having better prediction raises the value of judgment. After all, it doesn鈥檛 help to know the likelihood of rain if you don鈥檛 know how much you like staying dry or how much you hate carrying an umbrella. Prediction machines don鈥檛 provide judgment. Only humans do, because only humans can express the relative rewards from taking different actions. As AI takes over prediction, humans will do less of the combined prediction-judgment routine of decision making and focus more on the judgment role alone.”
― Ajay Agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

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#4

“Just now he was on a mind-blowing adventure and it was rapidly spiralling out of control, and this is what he needed to concentrate his mind on. How could he squeeze Daley to get the book back; that鈥檚 if Daley had it in his possession in the first place? The next few days were going to be crucial.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

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#5

“I picked up a fallen branch and struck a tree with it. Apples fell from the tree. The rope around one of the skeletons gave way and it fell to the ground. It lay there, crumpled and bent in ridiculous angles. I wondered if the person who the skeleton used to live inside would be embarrassed if he or she could see themselves now. I looked around the area but didn鈥檛 see any ghosts. Why would I see a ghost? They didn鈥檛 exist. Still, I looked a second time.”
― Eli Wilde, Orchard of Skeletons

tags: artificial-intelligence, coming-of-age, fantasy, friendship, future, graphic, love, romance, ya

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#6

“聽聽鈥業 knew it, I knew it, I damn well knew it,鈥� he shouted. 鈥楾he President was right you鈥檙e all infected with this wretched MeMe chromosome even at the dawn of your pathetic little planet鈥檚 evolution. You do realise of course there鈥檚 no hope for you. It鈥檚 all going to be a complete and utter waste of time. You and your little planet are all doomed.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

tags: excitement, fast-paced, full-on, funny, galaxy, gripping, sci-fi

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#7

“[...] but they and I had fallen apart, as one could in England and only there, into separate worlds, little spinning planets of personal relationship; there is probably a perfect metaphor for the process to be found in physics, from the way in which, I dimly apprehend, particles of energy group and regroup themselves in separate magnetic systems; a metaphor ready to hand for the man who can speak of these things with assurance; not for me, who can only say that England abounded in these small companies of intimate friends, so that, as in this case of Julia and myself, we could live in the same street in London, see at times, a few miles distant, the rural horizon, could have a liking one for the other, a mild curiosity about the other's fortunes, a regret, even, that we should be separated, and the knowledge that either of us had only to pick up the telephone and speak by the other's pillow, enjoy the intimacies of the levee, coming in, as it were, with the morning orange juice and the sun, yet be restrained from doing so by the centripetal force of our own worlds, and the cold, interstellar space between them.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

tags: charles-ryder

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#8

“Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.”
― David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

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#9

“Then suddenly it was gray and windy and cold and rainy and then the sleet and snow came and even if you could find the sun it seemed to have lost its warmth. From time to time Marion fiddled with a sketch pad, but her hand seemed to be moving the pencil while the rest of her was completely detached from the action. Occasionally they would attempt to resurrect their enthusiasm for the coffee house, and their other plans, but for the, most part they spent their time shooting dope and watching television or listening to music occasionally.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

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#10

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: evil, good

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#11

“Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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#12

“I know some in the family disagree with my views, but my views are who I am, what I am. You have never told me to change them; you are not guilty of that crime. I, on the other hand, am at fault for shutting you out of my life because I did not accept that you too have your views, which make you different from me, but nonetheless still family, still loved.”
― Jana Petken, The Guardian of Secrets

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#13

“If you can鈥檛 control it, fly with it.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

tags: cosmos, epic-fantasy, galaxy, humanoids, invader, melodramatic, planets, risk-taking, space-opera-science-fiction, warfare

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#14

“It leaves us with a town full of secrets and potential suspects. I must dig into Ethan鈥檚 life to uncover who had the motive to kill him.”
― Stella Sinclaire, Fertile Ground for Murder

tags: deceit, drama, forbidden-love, gripping, hidden, murder, pain, race-against-time, strained-relationships, twists

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#15

“The telegram was sealed 鈥� an old-fashioned touch, I thought, but then I鈥檇 never had a telegram before. I took my time opening it. I said nothing.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: betrayal, climatic, fiction-novel, hardship, investigation, life, paranormal, revenge, sadness, tense

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#16

“Ancient Chinese believe that when you dream, your soul leaves your body and travels to dream world. In dream world, there is no time. No past, no present, no future. When you remember dreams, it is very important to interpret those dreams because dreams you remember are very important to your future.”
― Steven Decker, Projector for Sale

tags: adventure, courage, curiosity, drama, dreams, emotions, fiction, intrigue, reality, romance

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#17

“The fuck is this shit?" it says. "Can you bloody believe this shit?" "No, honey," I say. "This is absolutely ridiculous." "Aren't you pissed the fuck off?" "Someone really should do something about this." "Why don't we bloody do something about it?" "Yeah, why don't we?" I say. "But how." "Well, we find whatever prick is in charge and give the fucker a piece of our minds, of course."聽”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black: A novel

tags: artificial-intelligence, conspiracy, dystopian-fiction, free-will, post-modern, reality, sex, truth, unease, violence

174 likes

#18

“Life was about making sense out of the insensible.聽A ball of fire out of a clear blue sky? Must鈥檝e been a meteorite, maybe debris from an airplane. Random flashes of light and color at night? A transformer blew up, you must鈥檝e been dreaming, you鈥檙e talking crazy, quiet down, take your meds.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

tags: magic, out-of-control, shotgun, supernatural, supernatural-abilities, thriller, thriller-fiction, trauma, traumatic-events, violent

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#19

“She cocked an eyebrow at me and said, 鈥淣o. After the week I鈥檝e just spent with you, there are going to be plenty of people that are gonna want to shoot you. You better get used to that.鈥� Which hurt my feelings a little.”
― Michael Deeze, The Deathbed Confessions

tags: action, agent, chicago, investigation, life-sentence, morally-grey, pain, serial-killer-thrillers, shared-secrets, unpredictable

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#20

“Today I plan to smile a lot, only so people who know me will be freaked the fuck out.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: daily-goals, funny, humour, humour-quote, humourosly-inspirational, smile

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#21

“Navarre asserted, 鈥淲e have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!鈥� the American Lieutenant General 鈥淚ron Mike鈥� O鈥橠aniel also shared that opinion.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

tags: educational, entertaining, eterans, factual, indochina-war, insightful, leaders, political-dictatorship, united

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#22

“It is this country that is dangerous, with her idealistic conception of legality. The social spirit of this people is wrapped up in scrupulous prejudices and that is fatal to our work.. You talk of England being our only refuge! So much the worse. What do we want with refuges ? Here you talk, print, plot, and do nothing.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

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#23

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

tags: action, ethics, inaction, injury, morality, responsibility

450 likes

#24

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
― Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare

tags: music

3555 likes

#25

“Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?”
― Paul Cude, Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past

tags: fantasy, fantasy-books, fantasy-books-humour, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-young-adult

566 likes

#26

“I think what you're groping for is that people need more than to feel scolded, more than to be made to feel stupid and guilty. They need more than a vision of doom. They need a vision of the world and of themselves that inspires them.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

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#27

“There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, insight, mystery, trauma

394 likes

#28

“Somebody always had to pay, and he was glad it was not going to be him. Meanwhile he had managed to ruin the perfect marriage by turning Dick into a crayfish and making Rachael think that he had run off with another woman.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

375 likes

#29

“Marina del Rey, where Segretti lived, was on the water and, if you believed the ads, represented the ultimate in swinging-singles living. Lots of sailing, saunas, mixed-doubles tennis, pools, parties, candlelight, long-stemmed glasses, Caesar salads, tanned bodies, mixed double-triple-multiple kinkiness in scented sandalwood splendor.”
― Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men

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#30

“We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true, though, happily, for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating if not excusing its crimes.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer

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