Douglas Long
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"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present." (Albert Camus, "The Rebel")
“Not only are the people in government never put off by what we judge to be absurd, they make use of absurdities to dull consciences and to destroy reason.” – from “Ensaio sobre a Lucidez” (“Seeing”, 2004) by José Saramago, born on this day in 1922 #booksky #bookquotes #literature
November 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“Not only are the people in government never put off by what we judge to be absurd, they make use of absurdities to dull consciences and to destroy reason.” – from “Ensaio sobre a Lucidez” (“Seeing”, 2004) by José Saramago, born on this day in 1922 #booksky #bookquotes #literature
“The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.” – from “The Underground Railroad” (2016) by Colson Whitehead, born in his day in 1969
#booksky #literature #bookquotes
#booksky #literature #bookquotes
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.” – from “The Underground Railroad” (2016) by Colson Whitehead, born in his day in 1969
#booksky #literature #bookquotes
#booksky #literature #bookquotes
“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth ... Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies ...” – “The Golden Notebook” by Doris Lessing, b. on this day in 1922 #booksky
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth ... Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies ...” – “The Golden Notebook” by Doris Lessing, b. on this day in 1922 #booksky
“It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.” – “A Wizard of Earthsea” by Ursula Le Guin, born on this day in 1929
#booksky #literature #UrsulaLeGuin #fantasyliterature #fantasy
#booksky #literature #UrsulaLeGuin #fantasyliterature #fantasy
October 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
“It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.” – “A Wizard of Earthsea” by Ursula Le Guin, born on this day in 1929
#booksky #literature #UrsulaLeGuin #fantasyliterature #fantasy
#booksky #literature #UrsulaLeGuin #fantasyliterature #fantasy
“Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.” – “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote, born on this day in 1924 #booksky
September 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
“Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.” – “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote, born on this day in 1924 #booksky
“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.” ― “Around the Day in Eighty Worlds” by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, born on this day in 1914
#booksky #literature #juliocortazar
#booksky #literature #juliocortazar
August 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.” ― “Around the Day in Eighty Worlds” by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, born on this day in 1914
#booksky #literature #juliocortazar
#booksky #literature #juliocortazar
“In accordance with the primitive arrangement of things, the most trifling causes produce the greatest events, and the grandest undertakings end in the most insignificant results.” – Nikolai Gogol #booksky #literature #russianliterature
August 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“In accordance with the primitive arrangement of things, the most trifling causes produce the greatest events, and the grandest undertakings end in the most insignificant results.” – Nikolai Gogol #booksky #literature #russianliterature
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929 by Aldous Huxley, born on this day in 1894
#booksky #literature #aldoushuxley
#booksky #literature #aldoushuxley
July 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929 by Aldous Huxley, born on this day in 1894
#booksky #literature #aldoushuxley
#booksky #literature #aldoushuxley
June 19 birthdays: Aung San Suu Kyi, Nick Drake, Salman Rushdie
“I think of faith as irony, which is perhaps why the only leaps of faith I’m capable of are those required by the creative imagination, by fictions that don’t pretend to be fact, and so end up telling the truth.” – S. Rushdie #booksky
“I think of faith as irony, which is perhaps why the only leaps of faith I’m capable of are those required by the creative imagination, by fictions that don’t pretend to be fact, and so end up telling the truth.” – S. Rushdie #booksky
June 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
June 19 birthdays: Aung San Suu Kyi, Nick Drake, Salman Rushdie
“I think of faith as irony, which is perhaps why the only leaps of faith I’m capable of are those required by the creative imagination, by fictions that don’t pretend to be fact, and so end up telling the truth.” – S. Rushdie #booksky
“I think of faith as irony, which is perhaps why the only leaps of faith I’m capable of are those required by the creative imagination, by fictions that don’t pretend to be fact, and so end up telling the truth.” – S. Rushdie #booksky
“Books are not a means of ‘escape.’ Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future.” – from “The Accursed” by Joyce Carol Oates, born June 16, 1938 #booksky #books #literature
June 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“Books are not a means of ‘escape.’ Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future.” – from “The Accursed” by Joyce Carol Oates, born June 16, 1938 #booksky #books #literature
“And the times were pleasant, but also desperate. This was the world.” (“The Mighty Red” by Louise Erdrich, born June 7, 1954) #booksky #literature
June 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
“And the times were pleasant, but also desperate. This was the world.” (“The Mighty Red” by Louise Erdrich, born June 7, 1954) #booksky #literature
“A crowd isn't formed after people gather; people gather after the crowd forms.” – Kōbō Abe, “The Face of Another” #booksky #literature #japaneseliterature
June 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM
“A crowd isn't formed after people gather; people gather after the crowd forms.” – Kōbō Abe, “The Face of Another” #booksky #literature #japaneseliterature
“From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.” – from "The Rings of Saturn" by W.G. Sebald, born on this day in 1944 #booksky
May 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
“From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.” – from "The Rings of Saturn" by W.G. Sebald, born on this day in 1944 #booksky
“There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.” – from “Gravity’s Rainbow” by Thomas Pynchon, born on this day in 1937 #booksky
May 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
“There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.” – from “Gravity’s Rainbow” by Thomas Pynchon, born on this day in 1937 #booksky
“When the bus stopped ... at midnight, I suddenly woke up, and at the sight of an unfamiliar place, I felt – with a new surge of clarity – the mystery of travel, the vastness of the world, the strangeness of life.” – from “Detroit Skyline, 1949” by Bobbie Ann Mason, born on May 1, 1940 #BookSky
May 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
“When the bus stopped ... at midnight, I suddenly woke up, and at the sight of an unfamiliar place, I felt – with a new surge of clarity – the mystery of travel, the vastness of the world, the strangeness of life.” – from “Detroit Skyline, 1949” by Bobbie Ann Mason, born on May 1, 1940 #BookSky
“Inhale this insignificance that is all around us. It is the key to wisdom. The key to a good mood.” – “The Festival of Insignificance” by Milan Kundera, born on this day in 1929 #BookSky #Books #Literature #MilanKundera
April 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
“Inhale this insignificance that is all around us. It is the key to wisdom. The key to a good mood.” – “The Festival of Insignificance” by Milan Kundera, born on this day in 1929 #BookSky #Books #Literature #MilanKundera
“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.” – “Travels with Charly” (1962) by John Steinbeck, born on this day in 1902 #BookSky #Books #Literature #Travel #Steinbeck #Quotes
Photo: Confluence of Mekong and Nam Khan rivers, Luang Prabang, Laos (Dec. 2024)
Photo: Confluence of Mekong and Nam Khan rivers, Luang Prabang, Laos (Dec. 2024)
February 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.” – “Travels with Charly” (1962) by John Steinbeck, born on this day in 1902 #BookSky #Books #Literature #Travel #Steinbeck #Quotes
Photo: Confluence of Mekong and Nam Khan rivers, Luang Prabang, Laos (Dec. 2024)
Photo: Confluence of Mekong and Nam Khan rivers, Luang Prabang, Laos (Dec. 2024)
“In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it’s stunning how little imagination most people display.” – “Rant” by Chuck Palahniuk, born on this day in 1962 #BookSky #Books #BookQuotes
February 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it’s stunning how little imagination most people display.” – “Rant” by Chuck Palahniuk, born on this day in 1962 #BookSky #Books #BookQuotes
“If you see the world only in terms of money, you are finally not seeing the world at all.” – from “Groundwork” by Paul Auster, born in this day in 1947
#Books #BookSky #Literature #BookQuotes
#Books #BookSky #Literature #BookQuotes
February 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
“If you see the world only in terms of money, you are finally not seeing the world at all.” – from “Groundwork” by Paul Auster, born in this day in 1947
#Books #BookSky #Literature #BookQuotes
#Books #BookSky #Literature #BookQuotes
“A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be – will be – a human zoo. A high-tech slum.” – Edward Abbey, born on this day in 1927
(Pic: Antelope Canyon AZ Jan 2022)
#Books #BookSky #Environment
(Pic: Antelope Canyon AZ Jan 2022)
#Books #BookSky #Environment
January 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
“A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be – will be – a human zoo. A high-tech slum.” – Edward Abbey, born on this day in 1927
(Pic: Antelope Canyon AZ Jan 2022)
#Books #BookSky #Environment
(Pic: Antelope Canyon AZ Jan 2022)
#Books #BookSky #Environment
Thai pup sporting a hairdo possibly inspired by Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. #Dogs #Pups #DoggyDoos #DogsOfThailand #DogsOfChiangMai
January 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Thai pup sporting a hairdo possibly inspired by Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. #Dogs #Pups #DoggyDoos #DogsOfThailand #DogsOfChiangMai
“The gods of yesterday become the devils of tomorrow.” – Robert E. Howard (b. today in 1906), from the Conan story “Black Colossus". When I was a teen, my grandfather stimulated my imagination by gifting me RE Howard, Tolkien, and Le Guin books, for which I’m forever grateful. #BookSky #Books
January 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
January 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM