“I have this habit of creating a life for myself to suit the surroundings I find myself in.” - Lawrence Block, Burglars Can’t Be Choosers #litquotes

“Sometimes he actually theorized that even the laws of physics were merely statistical, hence they allowed for exceptions: ghosts or thought transference.” - from Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann #litquotes

“God had created the universe as a way of sorting through the great library, finding those books that were most beautiful and meaningful.” - A Short Stay in Hell, Steven L. Peck #litquotes

“I know without a doubt that I’m real. I may have been made, but now I’m making myself.” - from The Employees, by Olga Ravn #litquotes

“‘Nobody,’ said Humboldt, ‘had a destiny. One simply decided to feign one until one came to believe in it oneself.’” - from Measuring the World, by Daniel Kehlmann #litquotes

“Whenever things were frightening, it was a good idea to measure them.” - from Measuring the World, by Daniel Kehlmann #litquotes

“And so it wasn’t long before Jacov was reminded of his life’s work, primarily through meditation and cocaine or through cocaine and meditation, the order being immaterial” - Reinhardt’s Garden, Mark Haber #litquotes

“Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” - George Orwell, 1984 #litquotes

“None of this mattered to Jacov, who was eager for the ceremony, happy to ingest anything that had the chance of rivaling his beloved cocaine, the drug that channeled, he asserted, the most audacious strain of melancholy ever known to man.” - Reinhardt’s Garden, Mark Haber #litquotes

“All existence is suffering, he’d say, reciting the first of the Four Noble Truths, claiming this was his favorite sentence in all the world” - from Reinhardt’s Garden, by Mark Haber #litquotes #QuoteOfTheDay

“when you are approaching poverty, you […] discover boredom and mean complications […] but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.” #litquotes

“My one tether was the project. I made no advances or discoveries and wrote nothing.” - Ian McEwan, What We Can Know #litquotes #QuoteOfTheDay

“Do you think you’re the only idiot with criminal secrets and idiotic criminal scenarios, who does idiotic things?” - Denis Johnson, The Laughing Monsters #litquotes

“Somehow he’d not only cheated fate, but also coaxed it to lend him a cigarette” - Denis Johnson, The Laughing Monsters #litquotes

“Reality is not a fact […] Reality is an impression, a belief. Any magician knows this.” - Denis Johnson, The Laughing Monsters #litquotes #QuoteOfTheDay

“Family traits are passed down from generation to generation out of the impenetrable past with no discernible point of origin, but family wealth must begin somewhere.” - Amor Towles, The Didomenico Fragment #litquotes

Minneapolis 💙

"The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet."
Stephen King, "The Stand"

#standup #abolishice #litquotes #quotesofnote #revolution #freeminneapolis #Minneapolis

“Many people keep watch, nobody sees.” - Denis Johnson, The Laughing Monsters #dailyquotes #litquotes

“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

“Learn to fear. To share fear is the greatest bond of all.” - J. A. Baker, The Peregrine #QuoteOfTheDay #litquotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“A simulation of you is still you.” - Blake Crouch, Summer Frost #litquotes

“The varieties of silence are as numerous as those of speech or thought. Or of listening.” - Ian McEwan, What We Can Know #litquotes

“You know what talent is? The curse of expectation.” - Stephen King, The Mist #litquotes #quoteoftheday

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

Picture of a blue sky at dawn with black text superimposed. Text reads, "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight and see the dawn before the rest of the world." This is a quote by Oscar Wilde.

Yes, I am a dreamer. I'm loving this quote by Oscar Wilde.

#quotes #litquotes #famousquotes #hope #dreamer

This morning, the sunshine is thick enough to swim in—as if you could fling yourself into it and float. I want to wear it like a robe. Squeeze it into my suitcase. Swallow it whole like a hot lemon. I am finally a woman willing to feed herself-light, bread, joy. Sometimes, you don't know that you're starving until you've had a proper meal. That's when your heart really begins to howl-when it learns what it's been missing.

Joy Sullivan, "Howl"
Instructions for Traveling West

#litquotes