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Author of Timberline (https://timberlinethenovel.com) "I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point -- race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.' ~ Molly Ivins
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Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow. To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. Hell is not for eternity. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. -Elie Weisel
December 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow. To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. Hell is not for eternity. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. -Elie Weisel
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"There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure that he saw it at all, just the way he was never quite sure about good modern art…"
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
December 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure that he saw it at all, just the way he was never quite sure about good modern art…"
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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Sarah Kane - 4.48 Psychosis
December 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Sarah Kane - 4.48 Psychosis
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“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
- Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
- Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
December 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
- Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
- Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”
– A timeless jab at foolish thinking.
- Mark Twain
– A timeless jab at foolish thinking.
- Mark Twain
December 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”
– A timeless jab at foolish thinking.
- Mark Twain
– A timeless jab at foolish thinking.
- Mark Twain
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“Don’t forget, the real business of the War is buying and selling.”
Thomas Pynchon.
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon.
Gravity's Rainbow
December 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“Don’t forget, the real business of the War is buying and selling.”
Thomas Pynchon.
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon.
Gravity's Rainbow
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I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
December 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
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"....[he] saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end." conclusion of H.G. Wells' *The Time Machine, reflecting the narrator's despair about humanity's progress leading to its own downfall. Published in 1895!
December 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
"....[he] saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end." conclusion of H.G. Wells' *The Time Machine, reflecting the narrator's despair about humanity's progress leading to its own downfall. Published in 1895!
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"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood" and "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas" Madame Curie
December 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood" and "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas" Madame Curie
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One of my favorites is from Alice Walker in the Color Purple, “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
December 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
One of my favorites is from Alice Walker in the Color Purple, “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
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From "Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody", Robert Brockway, re: Yellowstone erupting:
"I use God’s System of Measurement (which is pounds or ounces or, really, whatever we make up off-the-cuff here in America), but I’m pretty sure that’s equal to eight bazillion cubic kilometers of magma."
"I use God’s System of Measurement (which is pounds or ounces or, really, whatever we make up off-the-cuff here in America), but I’m pretty sure that’s equal to eight bazillion cubic kilometers of magma."
December 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
From "Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody", Robert Brockway, re: Yellowstone erupting:
"I use God’s System of Measurement (which is pounds or ounces or, really, whatever we make up off-the-cuff here in America), but I’m pretty sure that’s equal to eight bazillion cubic kilometers of magma."
"I use God’s System of Measurement (which is pounds or ounces or, really, whatever we make up off-the-cuff here in America), but I’m pretty sure that’s equal to eight bazillion cubic kilometers of magma."
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“Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable.”
Opening line from:
The Strange Tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; RLS (1888)
Opening line from:
The Strange Tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; RLS (1888)
December 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable.”
Opening line from:
The Strange Tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; RLS (1888)
Opening line from:
The Strange Tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; RLS (1888)
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"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
December 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
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“We’re cashing in a billion years of planetary savings bonds and blowing it on assorted bling.”
—Richard Powers, The Overstory
I liked this phrase so much, I turned it into a quilt.
—Richard Powers, The Overstory
I liked this phrase so much, I turned it into a quilt.
December 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
“We’re cashing in a billion years of planetary savings bonds and blowing it on assorted bling.”
—Richard Powers, The Overstory
I liked this phrase so much, I turned it into a quilt.
—Richard Powers, The Overstory
I liked this phrase so much, I turned it into a quilt.
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“Stranahan didn’t consider himself an eccentric or a hermit, even though at age fifty-three he lived alone on an island at the edge of the Atlantic with no landline, satellite dish or personal computer.”
Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip
Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip
December 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Stranahan didn’t consider himself an eccentric or a hermit, even though at age fifty-three he lived alone on an island at the edge of the Atlantic with no landline, satellite dish or personal computer.”
Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip
Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip
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