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    Lotchie Burton
    “If I were seducing you, I’d have you spread out like fine cuisine, working my way through the menu. From appetizer… to dessert.”
    ― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire
    tags: action, drama, exciting, exploration, fiction, love, passion, romance, sex, suspense
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    Ellen J. Lewinberg
    “I have a question for you Water. What happens to the water in my body if I get angry at someone or if someone gets angry with me?”

    “A very good question,” said Water. “In either case, the water in your body gets upset and causes you to not feel very well. You feel sad, or maybe you will cry. Crying is good because it puts good endorphins into your body, and you will start to feel better. They help the water in your body to recover.”
    ― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water
    tags: emotional-awareness, emotional-intelligence, energy-in-motion, holistic-parenting, magical-world, mindful-living, nurturing, nurturing-nature, storytelling-with-purpose, universe-connection
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    Tom Hillman
    “Serving” is assisting your fellow man, the how-to, practical way to thrust your life into the spiritual wall to make the
tunnel bigger. Will God suddenly appear? Does
washing stacks of pots and pans bring salvation?
    Can pulling weeds reclaim your brain? Will mopping the floor make you equal to the richest of men?”
    ― Tom Hillman, Digging for God
    tags: belief, empathy, equality, god, inner-love, love, self-healing, spiritual, thinking, thought-provoking
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    Max Nowaz
    “Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
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    Susan Rowland
    “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
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    “Making it to the Super Bowl is something few and far between. Many football players never get the opportunity to make it that far.”
    ― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
    tags: complex, drama, happy, help, humour, life, love, people, philosophy, self-discovery
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    A.R. Merrydew
    “    ‘So how did he imagine we would have known anything about them?’ Her husband asked.
     Gloria smiled awkwardly. ‘They woke up this morning and have been chanting you name ever since.”
    ― Anthony Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
    tags: action-packed, adventure, ai, artificial-intelligence, challenge, dystopian, fiction, thrilling
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    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
    tags: analysis, communism, dictatorship, economy, effective, monopolistic, myth, non-fiction, oppression, political-ideology
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    John Fowles
    “I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.”
    ― John Fowles
    tags: writing-novels, writing-process
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    Robert Frost
    “To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: afflictions, on-writing, poetry
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    Dalton Trumbo
    “A man can't fight always. If he's drowning or suffocating he's got to be smart and hold back some of his strength for the last the final the death struggle.”
    ― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
    tags: death, drowning, fight, struggle, suffocating
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    Robyn Arianrhod
    “I understand my parents quite well. They think of a wife as a man’s luxury, which he can afford only when he is making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of this view of the relationship between man and wife, because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a lifelong contract from the man because of her more favourable social rank . . . Which”
    ― Robyn Arianrhod, Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²
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    Vincent Panettiere
    “Seeing the pictures every evening while finishing the New York Times and waiting for dinner was his joy. Francine was unaware of his pleasure.  He could not reveal these feelings to the children or Francine. Silly. A father loves his children but can’t speak of it for fear of being made trivial.”
    ― Vincent Panettiere, Shared Sorrows
    tags: drama, fiction, fiction-novel, guilt, love, mystery-novel, redemption, romance, sorrow, suffering
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    Daniel Defoe
    “These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes ; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, Is any affliction like mine? Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit.”
    ― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
    tags: inspirational
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