Quoting Literature

Honoring the dying tradition of beautiful prose.

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John Steinbeck, holy shit.

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Joan Didion letting us know what her take on manifestation culture would be

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Now that’s how you introduce a character. Great lines.

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Another from Steinbeck. So far East of Eden is living up to the hype.

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John Steinbeck on the loss of childhood naïveté. What a paragraph.

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Orwell on “going to the dogs”

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John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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Cormac McCarthy. What else is there than yesterday?

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James Baldwin: the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.

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“All right - I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.”

Kurt Vonnegut - Bluebeard

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This is too good, James Baldwin

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Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death,
but genuine pain doesn’t live in the spirit,
nor in the air, nor in our lives,
nor on these terraces of billowing smoke.
The genuine pain that keeps everything awake
is a tiny, infinite burn
on the innocent eyes of other systems.

- Federico Garc��a Lorca

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“Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.”

- Anton Chekhov

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Alice Munro describes getting over a loss: "A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember."

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David Foster Wallace on finding the right writers for you.

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Ursula LeGuin. Nothing can compare to or replace books.

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James Baldwin on the delusion of willpower.