Quote From a Book

High school is one of the many foreign countries of the past, and I don’t go and visit anymore.

~~from "Tell Me One About Joel"; Oct. 1, 2024; megelison.com/blog, Letters from Meg
 

If you're trying to accomplish something boldly good in the world, you're probably a pain in a lot of a$$e$.
~~from The Last Caretaker: A Novel by Jessica Strawser
 
If I own slaves, or my fortune rests on the labor of others, I’m naturally going to define freedom as freedom from the government because that’s the only force that could liberate my slaves or workers...If I’m a Silicon Valley oligarch with crazy ideas about the way the country should be run and $100 billion in the bank, I too would want the government to be small, as it’s the only force that could regulate my business or require me to treat other people with more dignity.

~~from On Freedom by Timothy Snyder
 

There are people...who give, and there are people who take. There are people who create, people who destroy, and people who don't do anything and drive the other two kinds crazy. It's born in you, whether you give or take, and that's the way you are.

~~from A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle
 
Books remind us of the brutal follies of tyrants, big and small. They teach us that knowledge is an ongoing process, not a fixed set of givens. They show us the remarkable variety of humanity: how wonderfully different people were and are from each other, despite our persistent efforts to cram each other into the boxes of familiar categories. But more than that, a book is--to quote the poet John Milton--a human spirit treasured up for a life beyond life.

~~from Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham
 
There are a few things that are essential to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” that should never be purely left to the marketplace; these are the most important sectors where government intervention, regulation, and even subsidy are not just appropriate but essential. Housing is at the top of that list.

~~from "Property Pirates: How Billionaires are Hijacking Affordable Housing" by Thom Hartmann, hartmannreport.com, 10/23/24
 
The president doesn’t care about God, man. That’s what they all talk about to get the Bible-thumpers on board, but ... they only go to the church of the military industrial complex.

~~from The Suicide Motor Club by Christopher Buehlman
 
It's where we're all headed. The poor pulling the rich around in rickshaws.

~~from "Augher, Clogher, Fivemiletown" by Ian McDonald in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, January/February 2024 issue
 
"Monocultures are rare; the default state for most natural systems is diversity." [Bolding and itallics mine. So something that every first-year biology student knows has become something considered to have nothing to do with humans and should therefore be banned. Humans are part of nature, whether some people like it or not.]

~~from Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
 
"Successful men all over the world are always celebrated for their ability to eliminate something so they can make more room for something else."

~~from The Wedding People by Alison Espach
 
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. ~Douglas Adams
 
2nd time I've posted this but feel the need for it again:

"If you tell enough little boys that they should get everything they desire, eventually one of them will have desires so fierce they collapse in on themselves and become a superdense gravity well, drawing everything to themselves."
~~from “Scientists Confirm: There’s a Black Hole in the Center of Your Heart” by Jo Miles in Lightspeed magazine, 6/1/22 issue
 
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and... then retreated back into their money... and let other people clean up the mess they had made." The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
...{H}ow maladapted our society is to supporting lasting bonds. It’s like we’re trying to destroy love. Smothering it in concrete, deadening it with consumer goods and blitzes of media. We are exceptional—we are the only species that acts directly, consciously, against its self-interest. Over, and over, and over.

~~from Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash
 
"Liebst du mich?" "Bevor du mich fragtest, wußte ich es noch." ("Do you love me?" "Before you asked me, I still knew.")

Arnold Stadler: Ein hinreissender Schrotthändler (A Gorgeous Scrap Dealer).
 
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of." - Blaise Pascal”

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.--William Faulkner

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” Mahatma Gandhi
 

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