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Ah yes, another thrilling episode of "Darwin's Greatest Hits" where we get to sift through quotes like we're on a literary Easter egg hunt. 🎩✨ Apparently, realizing that the HMS Beagle was more than just a jolly cruise took a whopping three episodes. 😴📚
https://aethermug.com/posts/darwin-the-man-of-his-times #DarwinsGreatestHits #HMSBeagle #LiteraryQuotes #EasterEggHunt #ThrillingEpisodes #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah yes, another thrilling episode of "Darwin's Greatest Hits" where we get to sift through quotes like we're on a literary Easter egg hunt. 🎩✨ Apparently, realizing that the HMS Beagle was more than just a jolly cruise took a whopping three episodes. 😴📚
https://aethermug.com/posts/darwin-the-man-of-his-times #DarwinsGreatestHits #HMSBeagle #LiteraryQuotes #EasterEggHunt #ThrillingEpisodes #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah yes, another thrilling episode of "Darwin's Greatest Hits" where we get to sift through quotes like we're on a literary Easter egg hunt. 🎩✨ Apparently, realizing that the HMS Beagle was more than just a jolly cruise took a whopping three episodes. 😴📚
https://aethermug.com/posts/darwin-the-man-of-his-times #DarwinsGreatestHits #HMSBeagle #LiteraryQuotes #EasterEggHunt #ThrillingEpisodes #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah yes, another thrilling episode of "Darwin's Greatest Hits" where we get to sift through quotes like we're on a literary Easter egg hunt. 🎩✨ Apparently, realizing that the HMS Beagle was more than just a jolly cruise took a whopping three episodes. 😴📚
https://aethermug.com/posts/darwin-the-man-of-his-times #DarwinsGreatestHits #HMSBeagle #LiteraryQuotes #EasterEggHunt #ThrillingEpisodes #HackerNews #ngated -
#LiteraryQuotes #Steinbeck #EastOfEden
Gee, he was good.
“Her house became the refuge of young men puling in puberty, mourning over lost virtue, and aching to lose some more.”
John Steinbeck; East of Eden; Viking; 1952. -
Vox clamantis in mediis socialibus.
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RICKI TARR:
I've got a story to tell you.
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And if it's true, which I think it is, you boys are going to need a whole new organization.(_Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy_)
I was reminded again how things written by John Le Carré decades ago relate to US politics today.
Both the book and the TV series are well worth reading and watching more than once.
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"There are no dangerous questions, only dangerous answers."
(John Le Carré, _Smiley's People_)Corollary:
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Barbarism is played out.
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." - Oscar Wilde
#OscarWilde #LiteraryQuotes #AmericanHistory #SocialCritique #WildeanWisdom #Decadence #ThoughtProvoking #QuotesThatMakeYouThink
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"Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan?"—Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972 📚 🇺🇸 ✍🏽 🌴 #writers #WomenWriters #bookstodon #AmericanWriters #CaliforniaWriters #quotes #literature #LiteraryQuotes
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“Lest we forget,
a morgue is also a community center.”- Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother
(From a DVAN book review: “In his sophomore poetry collection, Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong meditates on how we think about death as individuals and as a community, and how we shoulder the weight of intergenerational trauma. Vuong reframes death and mourning as lonely processes into something communal.”)
#HisAndHearsePress #OceanVuong #TimeIsAMother #DVAN #Poetry #Quote #GriefQuotes #LiteraryQuotes #Grief #Funeral #Morgue #DeathPositive
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“Lest we forget,
a morgue is also a community center.”- Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother
(From a DVAN book review: “In his sophomore poetry collection, Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong meditates on how we think about death as individuals and as a community, and how we shoulder the weight of intergenerational trauma. Vuong reframes death and mourning as lonely processes into something communal.”)
#HisAndHearsePress #OceanVuong #TimeIsAMother #DVAN #Poetry #Quote #GriefQuotes #LiteraryQuotes #Grief #Funeral #Morgue #DeathPositive
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“Lest we forget,
a morgue is also a community center.”- Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother
(From a DVAN book review: “In his sophomore poetry collection, Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong meditates on how we think about death as individuals and as a community, and how we shoulder the weight of intergenerational trauma. Vuong reframes death and mourning as lonely processes into something communal.”)
#HisAndHearsePress #OceanVuong #TimeIsAMother #DVAN #Poetry #Quote #GriefQuotes #LiteraryQuotes #Grief #Funeral #Morgue #DeathPositive
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“Often the grave encloses, unknowingly, two hearts in the same coffin.”
- Alphonse de Lamartine
#HisAndHearsePress #Grief #GriefAndLoss #GriefQuotes #Quotes #LiteraryQuotes #Funeral #Memorial #AlphonseDeLamartine
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“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien
#HisAndHearsePress #GriefQuotes #GriefAndLoss #LiteraryQuotes #Tolkien #JRRTolkien #LOTR #ReturnOfTheKing #Funeral #Cry #TheRoadGoesEverOnAndOn
#Bookwyrm #Bookstodon -
“Your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes that is the best help of all.”
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess ⭐ ❄️ 🎄
#FrancesHodgsonBurnett #ALittlePrincess #ChildrensClassics #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.”
- E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet
#ENesbit #ThePhoenixAndTheCarpet #Mythology #ChildrensAdventureBooks #ChildrensBooks #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
"Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.”
- Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles 🎄
#AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #TheMysteriousAffairAtStyles #ClassicDetectiveFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed. Let us take it easy, and let us take it short; we shall be in the thick of the mystery soon, I promise you!”
- Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
#WilkieCollins #TheMoonstone #19thCentury #VictorianLiterature #ClassicDetectiveFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“In the sunken woods that traverse the neighbourhood of the burying-ground the last glimmer failed them, and it became necessary to kindle a match and re-illumine one of the lanterns of the gig. Thus, under the dripping trees, and environed by huge and moving shadows, they reached the scene of their unhallowed labours.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body-Snatcher
#RobertLouisStevenson #BurkeandHare #HorrorClassics #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookstodon -
“Are you surprised at the knowledge of the law which this way of writing betrays in an ignorant woman? I have been learning, my dear: the Law and the Lady have begun understanding one another.”
- Wilkie Collins, The Law and The Lady
#WilkieCollins #VictorianFiction #VictorianLiterature #19thCenturyLiterature #FemaleSleuths #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, save for the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
#HGWells #TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau #ScienceFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. “
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
#SherlockHolmes #ArthurConanDoyle #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #DetectiveClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
