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Quote of the day by Natsume Soseki: ‘I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living…’ – Japanese literary giant on the power of emotion
A thought can be crafted in a very precise, neat and logical way. Yet sometimes, it is the…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #humanemotions #intellectvsemotion #Japanese #Japaneseliterature #Kokoro #literaryquotes #modernJapanesenovelist #NatsumeSoseki #powerofemotion
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"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience..." — Mark Twain
Simple pleasures. That’s the good life.
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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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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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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 -
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 -
“He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.” —Farquhar McGillivray Knowles
#NewYearReflection #ResolutionTruths #DailyQuote #QuoteOfTheDay #LiteraryQuotes #PhilosophyQuotes #author #writingcommunity #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #AuthorLife #BookLovers #IndieAuthor
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#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. -
#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. -
#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. -
#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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Vox clamantis in mediis socialibus.
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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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RICKI TARR:
I've got a story to tell you.
...
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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RICKI TARR:
I've got a story to tell you.
...
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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RICKI TARR:
I've got a story to tell you.
...
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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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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“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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“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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“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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"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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"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."
—T. S. Eliot -
"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."
—T. S. Eliot -
"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."
—T. S. Eliot -
"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."
—T. S. Eliot -
“Now you’re ready, Daniel said.
Ready for what? Elisabeth said.
Ready to bagatelle it as it is, Daniel said.”
From ‘Autumn’ by Ali Smith
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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
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
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
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
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
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
A meagre stain in the corridors of history, that’s all we are. A little mark of scuff.
Sarah Winman, Still Life
#SundaySentence
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
A meagre stain in the corridors of history, that’s all we are. A little mark of scuff.
Sarah Winman, Still Life
#SundaySentence
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
A meagre stain in the corridors of history, that’s all we are. A little mark of scuff.
Sarah Winman, Still Life
#SundaySentence
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
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
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
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
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
Ah, it’s my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me.
Fernando Pessoa#SundaySentence
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
Ah, it’s my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me.
Fernando Pessoa#SundaySentence
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
Ah, it’s my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me.
Fernando Pessoa#SundaySentence
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
What are we? an anticipation of ourselves into the future, a being thrown into the world to die.
Heidegger#SundaySentence
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
What are we? an anticipation of ourselves into the future, a being thrown into the world to die.
Heidegger#SundaySentence
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
"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
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
"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
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
"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
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
Emily Dickinson#SundaySentence
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
Emily Dickinson#SundaySentence
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
Emily Dickinson#SundaySentence
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
"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
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
"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
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
"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
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
“We just . . . trusted the world too much.”
Rachel Kadish, Tolstoy Lied#SundaySentence
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone;
Alfred Tennyson#SundaySentence
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon