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“He pulled back the sleeve of his jacket and glanced at his vintage watch tick away the seconds in a conventional way, even though he knew better than anyone that time…was anything but conventional.”

Book:Chronic Passions

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“Artistes, orateurs, prophètes, hommes-colosses comme Danton, hommes-enfants comme Cloots, gladiateurs et philosophes, tous allaient au même but, le progrès. Rien ne les déconcertait. La grandeur de la Convention fut de chercher la quantité de réel qui est dans ce que les hommes appellent l'impossible.”

Revolution Convention Republique

Author:Victor Hugo

“We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way.”

Art Architecture Complicity Convention

Book:Complicity and Conviction: Steps Toward an Architecture of Convention

Source: Complicity and Conviction: Steps Toward an Architecture of Convention

“So, this is how it will play out. Today, in the sunshine, on the noisy sidewalk at Logan Airport in Boston, with people and their suitcases bumping into me, and taxi horns blaring and strangers going about their routine day, I’m about to learn that I have lost my husband. I will finally know his secrets.”

Love Crime Fugitive Felon Identify Theft

Book:The Fugitive's Doctor

Source: The Fugitive's Doctor

“you'll never see my books on Vanity Fair I'm not the type of author they would want there”

Mental Illness Ptsd Bipolar Quotes Of Life Vanity Fair Stantasyland Felon

Book:Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

Source: Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

“I do what I want, to who I want, and you all tell yourselves Fouche is a bad guy, but he’s our bad guy. You guv people make no sense, but I can always count on you to open that cell door.”

Deception Bad Guys Surrogates Felon

Book:A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

Source: A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“Imagine being the 'party of law and order' and having a convicted felon at the top of your ticket.”

Politics Carlos Wallace Law And Order Donald Trump Felony Donald J Trump Felon

Book:Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free

Source: Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice can not sleep forever." Thomas Jefferson”

Jefferson Felon 45 Djt U S Aggression

Book:On the Back Roads: Discovering Small Towns of America

Source: On the Back Roads: Discovering Small Towns of America

“Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.”

Writing Creativity Intellect Writer Writers Publishing Refuge Escape Michael Bassey Johnson Pen Escapade Great Mind Alibi Freelancer Random Thought Freelance Scribble Escapee

Author:Michael Bassey Johnson

“How about this one?" I pointed to a graceful, feathery vine with small, delicate, star-shaped red blooms. "That's a cypress vine," he said. "Ipomoea quamoclit. It's an escapee and not native to her garden. People think it's an annual, but with a little help from nature, it's self-seeding ability means it can pop up in new places year after year and thrive far away from its original home." Something niggled at the back of my mind. If the vine could escape and start over again somewhere new, why couldn't a person? If Jack's grandmother's plants were strong enough to survive neglect, why couldn't I?”

Survivor Relatable Symbolic Vine Escapee Cypress

Book:To Have and to Heist

Source: To Have and to Heist

“Have you noticed how Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen look nothing alike, and yet they both manage to look exactly like their father, Martin?”

Humor Fiction Equality Comic Novel

Book:The Marrying Kind

Source: The Marrying Kind

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