Ethan Goode
banner
etygoode.bsky.social
Ethan Goode
@etygoode.bsky.social
Thought-provoking quotes from things I’m reading and my daily life. Always remember: “Life without success can also be beautiful.” - Robert Walser
Pinned
This is a digital commonplace book.

Quotes from literature. Quotes from history. Quotes I’ve overheard.

Quotes I’ve sought from the machine.

Read along.

#QuoteOfTheDay #LitQuotes #ChatGPTWisdom
“Groups are more immoral than individuals. We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” - MLK JR, Letter from a Birmingham Jail #litquotes
January 19, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Reposted by Ethan Goode
To deal with the Chicago cold, the Rams had chicken broth and hot chocolate stations available on the sideline. Many players also wore scuba suits under their uniforms. 

But they also adopted a more unusual strategy: cayenne pepper in their socks.
January 19, 2026 at 6:50 PM
“Learn to fear. To share fear is the greatest bond of all.” - J. A. Baker, The Peregrine #QuoteOfTheDay #litquotes
January 19, 2026 at 4:31 PM
“‘It’s a pity he cannot kill himself with drink,’ said Heathcliff, muttering an echo of curses … ‘He’s doing his very utmost; but his constitution defies him.’” - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
January 18, 2026 at 8:06 PM
“Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff’s dwelling. ‘Wuthering’ being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.” #litquotes
January 17, 2026 at 2:27 PM
“I have always longed to be a part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to the town as a stranger.” - J. A. Baker, The Peregrine #dailyquotes
January 16, 2026 at 1:48 PM
“As Machiavelli noted, ‘Men desire novelty to such an extent that those who are doing well wish for a change as much as those who are doing badly.’” - James Clear, Atomic Habits #QuoteOfTheDay
January 15, 2026 at 1:41 PM
“When you spin fictions within fictions, if you do it long enough, even the fiction weavers may wind up losing their way, caught in the hall of mirrors they created.” - William Neuman #QuoteOfTheDay
January 15, 2026 at 11:13 AM
“two groups of people facing each other on opposite sides of a street, shouting at the top of their lungs: insults, arguments, slogans. And each of them was shouting so loud … they couldn’t hear what the people on the other side of the street were shouting. Meanwhile, the street itself was a ruin”
January 13, 2026 at 12:15 PM
“Todo se puede poner peor.” #QuoteOfTheDay
January 13, 2026 at 12:08 PM
“When you understand the situation of the other person, when you understand the nature of suffering, anger will vanish because it is transformed into compassion.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Taming the Tiger Within #dailyquotes #litquotes
January 13, 2026 at 10:15 AM
“No one is a stricter guardian of morality than the secret law breaker. For it is clear to them that humanity would crumble and perish if everyone lived as they did.” Marlen Haushofer, Killing Stella #litquotes
January 12, 2026 at 4:51 PM
“I think each person is governed by their own laws and they have boundaries drawn for them that they can’t cross without destroying themselves.” - Marlen Haushofer, Killing Stella #quoteoftheday #litquotes
January 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM
“A simulation of you is still you.” - Blake Crouch, Summer Frost #litquotes
January 10, 2026 at 11:28 AM
ONLY POEMS (@onlypoems)
Andrea Gibson
substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:28 AM
“The varieties of silence are as numerous as those of speech or thought. Or of listening.” - Ian McEwan, What We Can Know #litquotes
January 10, 2026 at 1:02 AM
“You know what talent is? The curse of expectation.” - Stephen King, The Mist #litquotes #quoteoftheday
January 9, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Continuity, etc.
January 8, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Even more:
January 8, 2026 at 2:56 PM
More continuity:
January 8, 2026 at 2:55 PM
My original attempt at a digital commonplace book was on X. I was banned from the platform for reasons that were never made clear. Screenshots from X are included here for purposes of continuity. #X #ElonMuskSucks
January 8, 2026 at 2:53 PM
This is a digital commonplace book.

Quotes from literature. Quotes from history. Quotes I’ve overheard.

Quotes I’ve sought from the machine.

Read along.

#QuoteOfTheDay #LitQuotes #ChatGPTWisdom
January 8, 2026 at 2:45 PM