Woke up this morning exhausted. Fed the cat, went back to sleep. Woke up to cat claws in my posterior – she gets the zoomies after breakfast – and not feeling better, I contemplated a meme post. Thing is? I don’t collect memes.
Instead, I gather quotes and snips from the books I am reading as ebooks. Sometimes even from the paper books although those are not as pretty. So, in no particular order or arrangement, I give you a selection of quotes to amuse, entertain, and provoke thought.
Mad Genius Club 
10 responses to “A Selection of Quotes”
I love quotes! As Dorothy Sayers said, it beats the hassle of original thinking. Or something like that.
I post quotes five days a week on our Instagram account, usually related to writing but not always. You’ve got some winners that I haven’t seen before!
I enjoy your quotes! I don’t spend a lot of time on Instagram, but I see them regularly when I do check in.
Thank you! It’s always nice to know someone saw them.
I think the Peschel Press blue square makes them pop from the stream of images. At least, that’s the plan. I use Canva (the free version) to make that happen.
That first one is an extremely good way to do description. Compared to some modern stuff, light on exacting details but does the important thing: triggers the reader’s imagination to fill in the specifics of their internal vision of the perfect woman.
Really reveals the clumsiness of my own few attempts at similar descriptions.
Then again, I have read a lot of pulp-era stories and watched dozens of 1940s-50s noir and crime movies, so my brain may be more primed to respond as the writer expected.
Thing is, with Python the error could be a bit of whitespace in the wrong place, or a tab instead of the equivalent number of spaces. Who designs a language in which adding or losing a couple of spaces changes the whole meaning of a function? C may seem intimidating and cryptic but at least it is unambiguous about where expressions begin and end.
I think Ayn Rand was ahead of Thomas Sowell on the feeling vs. thinking dichotomy.
That dichotomy is real old.
The Phantom Toll booth was such a good book. I should track down a copy.
Well, we already have a memeist (memer? memologist? ???) in Sarah.
That cat is daring someone to touch those little pink toes, so she can attack the wayward hand. I know that look.
The quote about working with what does happen reminds me of the unofficial motto at Day Job: Semper Gumbi. Always flexible.
I feel your exhaustion. Getting sick, then doing extra duties for Day Job left me absolutely flat. When the sun goes down, I will too.
Yeah, that cat is clearly contemplating some treacherous deviltry. You can see it in her eyes. 😀