There’s something about #Halloween that feels made for storytelling. As the nights grow longer and the shadows stretch a little farther, books become our flickering candlelight 🕯️ — offering both comfort and chills. 👻🎃
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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.
Vox clamantis in mediis socialibus.
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.
"There are no dangerous questions, only dangerous answers."
(John Le Carré, _Smiley's People_)
Corollary:
There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.
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
“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 Burkard
Source: https://open.substack.com/pub/poemperdiem/p/thursday-december-26
(The wonderful #poetry #newsletter of #poet and #translator #RobinMyers)
"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
"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
Oops, spoiler alert! This is definitely going to mess up their relationship!
#shakespeare #literaryquotes #memes #humour
Oh to be at Blandings, at any time of the year, and chat with the Empress awhile....
Happy Birthday to P.G.Wodehouse who gave us Emsworth, Ickenham, Psmith, and tons of other wonderfully entertaining characters, wrapped up in frothy plots and delightful language... and who gave us so much quotable material.
Here's a favourite, on writing - :
'I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.'
- P.G.Wodehouse
#birthdayboy #pgwodehouse #literaryquotes #literarybirthday #quote #pgwodehousequotes
Hooray for the novelists!
#books #literaryquotes #writerstips #writingcommunity
And he would know, he had arguably the prettiest knees in Britain in 1940!
#literaryquotes #humour #memes
"I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room."
– Ray Bradbury, "Zen in the Art of Writing"
#books #RayBradbury #writing #LiteraryQuotes #LitStuffFromTheEyrie
“She liked time at the edges of things — the edge of the crowd, the edge of the pool, the edge of the wood — where all must pass but none quite belonged.”
― Nicola Griffith, "Hild"
#NicolaGriffith #LiteraryQuotes #LitStuffFromTheEyrie #books
“But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose that I intend any preposterous comparison, when I observe that Homer was farther removed in time from Troy than I am from the Napoleonic wars; yet he spoke to the Greeks for 2,000 years and more.”
― Patrick O'Brian
#books #LiteraryQuotes #LitStuffFromTheEyrie #PatrickOBrian #AubreyMaturin #Aubreyad
