Detty
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“So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book…”
“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes […] Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
—Anne Frank
#booksky
—Anne Frank
#booksky
January 15, 2026 at 3:55 AM
“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes […] Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
—Anne Frank
#booksky
—Anne Frank
#booksky
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
—George Orwell, 1984
#booksky
—George Orwell, 1984
#booksky
January 7, 2026 at 9:09 PM
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
—George Orwell, 1984
#booksky
—George Orwell, 1984
#booksky
“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians - because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”
—Madeleine L'Engle
#booksky
—Madeleine L'Engle
#booksky
March 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians - because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”
—Madeleine L'Engle
#booksky
—Madeleine L'Engle
#booksky
“You see, we human beings are not born with prejudices. Always they are made for us. Made by someone who wants something. Remember that when you hear this kind of talk. Somebody’s going to get something out of it—and it isn’t going to be you.”
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Don't Be A Sucker (1947)
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January 25, 2025 at 4:34 AM
“You see, we human beings are not born with prejudices. Always they are made for us. Made by someone who wants something. Remember that when you hear this kind of talk. Somebody’s going to get something out of it—and it isn’t going to be you.”
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Since everything is so scary, uncertain, and heartbreaking, I decided to pick up this book.
Maybe 2025 will be the year I actually write the book I have wanted to write for years…
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Maybe 2025 will be the year I actually write the book I have wanted to write for years…
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November 22, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Since everything is so scary, uncertain, and heartbreaking, I decided to pick up this book.
Maybe 2025 will be the year I actually write the book I have wanted to write for years…
💙📚
Maybe 2025 will be the year I actually write the book I have wanted to write for years…
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🎶If you see the news and don’t feel anything,
if you see that comment and don’t feel anything,
if that hatred doesn’t make you feel anything,
you’re not normal but abnormal🎶
—BTS, “Am I Wrong”
if you see that comment and don’t feel anything,
if that hatred doesn’t make you feel anything,
you’re not normal but abnormal🎶
—BTS, “Am I Wrong”
November 21, 2024 at 8:49 PM
🎶If you see the news and don’t feel anything,
if you see that comment and don’t feel anything,
if that hatred doesn’t make you feel anything,
you’re not normal but abnormal🎶
—BTS, “Am I Wrong”
if you see that comment and don’t feel anything,
if that hatred doesn’t make you feel anything,
you’re not normal but abnormal🎶
—BTS, “Am I Wrong”
“We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep one shape till custom make it their perch and not their terror.”
—William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
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—William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
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November 20, 2024 at 2:12 PM
“We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep one shape till custom make it their perch and not their terror.”
—William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
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—William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
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“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't change their views to fit the facts,they change the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs changing."
—The Fourth Doctor, Doctor Who
—The Fourth Doctor, Doctor Who
November 19, 2024 at 3:43 AM
“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't change their views to fit the facts,they change the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs changing."
—The Fourth Doctor, Doctor Who
—The Fourth Doctor, Doctor Who
“A book, too, can be a star, ‘explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,’ a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
—Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
#booksky 💙📚
—Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
#booksky 💙📚
November 19, 2024 at 3:23 AM
“A book, too, can be a star, ‘explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,’ a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
—Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
#booksky 💙📚
—Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
#booksky 💙📚
🎶The world’s goin’ crazy
How about you how bout ya
You think it is okay?
I don’t think it’s quite right
Though they have ears, they don’t listen
Though they have eyes, they don’t see
They all have fish living inside their mind
That fish’s name is SELFISH SELFISH🎶
—BTS, “Am I Wrong”
How about you how bout ya
You think it is okay?
I don’t think it’s quite right
Though they have ears, they don’t listen
Though they have eyes, they don’t see
They all have fish living inside their mind
That fish’s name is SELFISH SELFISH🎶
—BTS, “Am I Wrong”
November 18, 2024 at 3:58 AM
🎶The world’s goin’ crazy
How about you how bout ya
You think it is okay?
I don’t think it’s quite right
Though they have ears, they don’t listen
Though they have eyes, they don’t see
They all have fish living inside their mind
That fish’s name is SELFISH SELFISH🎶
—BTS, “Am I Wrong”
How about you how bout ya
You think it is okay?
I don’t think it’s quite right
Though they have ears, they don’t listen
Though they have eyes, they don’t see
They all have fish living inside their mind
That fish’s name is SELFISH SELFISH🎶
—BTS, “Am I Wrong”
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
—William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
—William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
November 18, 2024 at 3:05 AM
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
—William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
—William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
November 17, 2024 at 4:19 AM
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”
—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
November 15, 2024 at 2:59 PM
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”
—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?”
—Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
—Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
November 15, 2024 at 12:55 AM
“We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?”
—Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
—Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
“Men must be decent first and brilliant later, otherwise you're not helping people, just servicing the machine.”
—Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
—Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
November 15, 2024 at 12:50 AM
“Men must be decent first and brilliant later, otherwise you're not helping people, just servicing the machine.”
—Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
—Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
—George Orwell, 1984
—George Orwell, 1984
November 15, 2024 at 12:48 AM
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
—George Orwell, 1984
—George Orwell, 1984
Me, whenever someone cannot see the historical and literary parallels to what is happening in the United States right now:
a man with white hair is saying i feel like i 'm taking crazy pills
ALT: a man with white hair is saying i feel like i 'm taking crazy pills
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November 14, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Me, whenever someone cannot see the historical and literary parallels to what is happening in the United States right now:
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
November 14, 2024 at 3:03 AM
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre