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I am currently rather enjoying my first read-through of the Discworld series by Sir Terry Pratchett. As of today, I am a stone's throw away from finishing Interesting Times and starting Maskerade (probably later tonight).
The quote below was the first quote that I deemed worthy of retaining for posterity, upon my first reading of The Colour of Magic.
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"His was the air of one who is unjustly put upon, who is dreaded and feared, yet who is the only friend of the poor and the best doctor for the mortally wounded....
Death, although exceptionally busy at all times, decided that He now had a hobby."
From: "The Colour of Magic" by Sir Terry Pratchett (1983)
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#discworld #colourofmagic #terrypratchett #sirterrypratchett #bookquotes #quotes #literaryquotes #reading #books #bookstodon #GNUTerryPratchett #death #rincewind #wizards
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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 -
#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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“I don't know why I thought of my brother's voice,
miles and miles of it. And I turned
from the past because I had none.
Dear reader, whoever you are, remember,
among all, remember.”
—Michael BurkardSource: https://open.substack.com/pub/poemperdiem/p/thursday-december-26
(The wonderful #poetry #newsletter of #poet and #translator #RobinMyers)
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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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"We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors’ victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."
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If you weep for all the sorrows in this world, in the end you will have no eyes.
Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
#SundaySentence
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A meagre stain in the corridors of history, that’s all we are. A little mark of scuff.
Sarah Winman, Still Life
#SundaySentence
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That was when I first saw how useless, how ephemeral love could be, how it gutters in the wind, a flame without body.
Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
#SundaySentence
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Ah, it’s my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me.
Fernando Pessoa#SundaySentence
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What are we? an anticipation of ourselves into the future, a being thrown into the world to die.
Heidegger#SundaySentence
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"How awful," he said, "the way time passes!"
, and he spent the whole afternoon watching it rain on the begonias.Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One hundred years of solitude
#SundaySentence
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
Emily Dickinson#SundaySentence
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"Poetry is how we endure the unendurable. Sometimes it has to be a lie."
All in Baskerville typeface. Clear and beautiful.
Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
#SundaySentence or two
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Debo hacer a un lado la fea acumulación de la existencia y reencontrar la mirada que la amó lo bastante, al principio, para mostrar sus cimientos. Lo que me queda en la vida está en este ataque, este temblor.
I must cast off life's ugly accumulation and find again the gaze that loved it enough in the beginning to display its foundation. What is left for me to life exists in this assault, this tremor.
—René Char
#quotes #citas #poesía #poetry #RenéChar #LiteraryQuotes #CitasLiterarias #writers
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Another d-mn'd drooly day! Always, drizzle, drizzle, drizzle! Eh! Mr. Greysky?*
Even the cat can't be bothered to go outside.
*My apologies to the ghost of William Henry, Duke of Gloucester.
#Rain
#EdwardGibbons
#LiteraryQuotes
#Quotes
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"Listen to *me*," said the demon, as he placed his hand upon my head...
And I stood in the morass among the tall lilies, and the rain fell upon my head - and the lilies sighed one unto the other in the solemnity of their desolation.
Edgar Allan Poe
#wordsMatter #quoteoftheday #literaryquotes #quote #bookstodon #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #books #readingForPleasure #EdgarAllanPoe
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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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“Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life.”
- Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
#HisAndHearsePress #Quote #Quotes #LiteraryQuotes #Funeral #Death #Grief #TuckEverlasting #NatalieBabbitt #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon
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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
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“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 ⭐ ❄️ 🎄
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“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
