Simple plan. Deport the billionaires. Repatriate the money they stole from us.

“Small talk’s just bullshit leaving the body.” Jackson Lamb in Clown Town. #Booksky

“Why are women left out of history? Why do we have to piece their stories back together from fragments- like broken shards of pottery? From “There are Rivers in the Sky” by Elif Shafak #booksky #bookchallenge #writers #authors #readers #booklovers

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"Now, what I want to know," the deputy went on, "is why are you two boys sitting out here behind this shed smoking?" "Shucks," I said, "if you'd been a little earlier, you'd have seen us while we were still on fire!'' Patrick F. McManus, from “Never sniff a gift fish”

It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to. Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

"Why is it that people are engineered to live long enough to pile up a lifetime of mistakes, but not long enough to fix them?" - Michael Christie, Greenwood.

“…we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the heavens and leading us to our destiny, but it’s only our vanity.” - Salman Rushdie - The Moor’s Last Sigh

Still one of my favourites. Recommended to me by someone I deeply admire.

To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead. Milan Kundera, Immortality

"The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.” Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson Malazan Book of the Fallen Book 8

“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.” - Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

‘Each slave receives simple instructions. She is to work herself on the phallus until she achieves satisfaction. Only then will the paddling cease, no matter how sore she is.‘ The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty - Anne Rice

Post a book quote that you love. #booksky #bookchallenge #writers #authors #readers #booklovers "O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!" ~ Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"

My favorite quote comes from (a time long before AI existed), in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.”

when I was a kid we had to read A Separate Peace for English class, and during the test one of my pals answered the question 'what is the meaning of the title?' with 'a peace of his marrow separated from the bone when his leg broke and that's what killed him' no marks

This quote makes me think of what my late mother used to say about Salieri. "How wretched it must be to be the one-in-a-hundred year genius born in the same lifetime as the once-in-a-millennia savant."

“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine…” Hunter S. Thompson, Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail

“The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit” - James Joyce, Ulysses

“It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.” ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.” -Norman Mailer, The Presidential Papers

Had to add The Yellow Wallpaper

And meanwhile USA citizens become stateless. If you try to flee they have been letting people out of the country, and then cancelling passports. If you're in the wrong place, this can become VERY dangerous. Piggy has marked Americans as enemies to the world.

A Republican-led bill limiting Congressional stock trading would not cover transactions involving crypto or private equity, among other loopholes. www.levernews.com/inside-the-g...

NAZI VEEP KKKING TRUMP HAS GLOBALLY MONETIZED THE PRESIDENCY TRUMP AND ELON HAVE STOLEN BILLIONS STOP GENOCIDE

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

The men who thump their chests about protecting women will shoot you in the face and call you a "fucking bitch" in celebration. What a world.