IF a Stone

Boycotting the film, for sure. 😡

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.” Kathy in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (and recently savaged by a truly horrific film adaptation).

"There are no lasting victories in politics, there is only the remorseless grinding forward of events." — Conspirata (Lustrum) Robert Harris

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“She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”

Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”

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“It was now lunch time and they were all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that nothing had happened.”

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway (short story)

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Sorrow floats.

The Hotel New Hampshire,
John Irving.

Russia directly helping Iran kill Americans, he's ok with that. Doesn't want to upset his boss!

I hope this is a real billboard in America.

Poll: A majority of Americans opposes U.S. military action in Iran Most Americans disapprove of President Trump's handling of Iran, and a majority sees Iran as either only a minor threat or no threat at all, an NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds.

Is Iran a threat to the United States?

Pretty much only for MAGA older White Evangelicals without college degrees in rural areas.

www.npr.org/2026/03/06/n...

"Shit happens" should not be considered a viable defense to charges of war crimes.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Post a book quote that you love. #booksky #bookchallenge #writers #authors #readers #booklovers

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Bone #1 1st printing cover

A bit of a cheat, but my goodness, I love this book and series….

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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted ...

www.amazon.com/Embarrassmen...

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Book cover and leather binding from 1792. The Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery."

-Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World"