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The Sailor & The Porteña

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Reedsy Prompt #280: Talk That Talk

Below is my submission for the Reedsy Prompt #280: Talk That Talk contest.
You can view my story submission page here: Nicholas Warack's Reedsy Stories

The objective of this particular challenge I selected was to "Write a story that solely consists of dialogue. (No dialogue tags, actions, or descriptions. Just pure dialogue!)." So, I rely on you to author the scene, characters, and actions in your m Read more of this blog post »

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The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

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“They kissed to remember as they did to forget; they kissed to know so they could dream; they kissed to believe that a kiss could do so.”
― Nicholas Warack, The Sailor & The Porteña

tags: hopeless-romantic, kissing, romance

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“People are all the same: they shit, they die, and somewhere in between, they bitch their way through it. You’ve got to get what’s yours while you can.”
― Nicholas Warack, The Sailor & The Porteña

tags: cynicism, existentialism, realism

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“In their hearts, the family knew this venture was all for naught, but such a sweet lie made watery soups and stale bread go down better than a bitter truth.”
― Nicholas Warack, The Sailor & The Porteña

tags: enduring-hardships, family, optimism, resilience-hope

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“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind

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“misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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“What injures the hive injures the bee.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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