“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

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. 👻🎃

#literaryquotes

https://www.booknotification.com/quotes/halloween-book-related-quotes/

#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.

#LiteraryQuotes
#Paraphrases

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.

<https://youtu.be/pq61jstTApk?t=2900>

#LiteraryQuotes
#TVQuotes

"There are no dangerous questions, only dangerous answers."
(John Le Carré, _Smiley's People_)

Corollary:
There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.

#LiteraryQuotes
#Paraphrases

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)

#quotes #LiteraryQuotes