"...so that between any slightest point of our past and all the others a rich network of memories gives us an almost infinite variety of communicating paths to choose from."
#SundaySentence from Time Regained by Marcel Proust, translated by Andreas Mayor and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright https://tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2018/09/13/le-temps-retrouve-time-regained-by-marcel-proust-review/
"But the truth, even more, is that life is perpetually weaving fresh threads which link one individual and one event to another, and that these threads are crossed and recrossed, doubled and redoubled to thicken the web ..."
#SundaySentence from Time Regained by Marcel Proust, translated by Andreas Mayor and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright https://tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2018/09/13/le-temps-retrouve-time-regained-by-marcel-proust-review/
“It didn’t take much more reading to learn that, by all appearances, he had gotten away with murder.” Jerry Mitchell 📖 Race Against Time, page 53. Also see: @jmitchellnews.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy #SundaySentence
She thoroughly approved of such sentiments so long as there was, of course, no suggestion that they applied to her.
The Wyrd Sisters
Terry Pratchett
#SundaySentence #TerryPratchett #bookstodon #Discworld
"Are our myriad technological innovations to be seen as responses to collective needs and desires, or are they simply logical developments in the inexorable evolution of technology itself?"
Sven Birkerts, 'The Gutenberg Elegies,' 1994
#sundaySentence #Artificial_intel @bookstodon #technology #bookstodon
"... a masquerade which is more successful than any that one has ever been to and at which one is most genuinely "intrigued" by the identity of the other guests, but with the novel feature that the disguises, which were assumed long ago against their wearers' will, cannot, when the party is over, be wifped off with the make-up."
#SundaySentence from Time Regained by Marcel Proust, translated by Andreas Mayor and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright https://tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2018/09/13/le-temps-retrouve-time-regained-by-marcel-proust-review/
"And I realised something that I had not suspected when I entered the room a few minutes earlier: that every party, grand or simple, which takes place after a long interval in which one has ceased to go into society, provided that it brings together some of the people whom one knew in the past, gives one the impression of a masquerade ..."
“…so still that the drops of wax could be heard falling from the candles.” Anna Karenina #SundaySentence
“They were like candy,” he says.
- Anke Gowda
#SundaySentence
From: @bloodravenlib
https://mas.to/@bloodravenlib/116036200804202559
"Likewise, I have had time to confirm that what remains with me after reading so many books is precious and scant — a couple of passages, some dialogues, an atmosphere that I yearn to live in once again."
#SundaySentence by Cristina Rivera Garza in By the Book (2026 The @newyorktimes Book Review) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/books/review/cristina-rivera-autobiography-of-cotton.html
Finally we dragged ourselves on to the ice-foot at Cape Neumeyer and inside of an hour had four hare, and very delicious they were, even though unassisted by such frills as salt or fire.
From the journal of Robert Edwin Peary, on an expedition in the Arctic. 1907.
#SundaySentence #NoFrills
“Levin rose to his feet, took off his overcoat, and scurrying over the rough ice round the hut, came out on the smooth ice and skated without effort, as it were, by simple exercise of will, increasing and slackening speed and turning his course.”
Anna Karenina
#SundaySentence
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“Books are probes sent into deep space, seeking other sentient life; readers are the sentinels watching the night sky, like huge radar complexes, but with eyes and ears and feelings" (Janna Malamud Smith).
(I know I'm a little late for SundaySentence, but I really meant to post this yesterday. Really.)
"The silence is so thick it makes me feel wealthy."
#SundaySentence is from Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/6eb878ca-58d1-427e-a9f8-650bf26315ab
#amReading
A Persian inscription on a sixteenth-century platter reads: “That this platter always be full, always surrounded by friends, that they are lacking for nothing and that they enjoy everything well.” -- from 'Adventures in the Louvre' by Elaine Sciolino
"We are free to love who we please
even if, or maybe because, the language
we are forgetting has already lost
that word, if it ever had one."
#SundaySentence Indian Love Call by Eric Gansworth from Apple (Skin to the Core) (2020 Levine Querido) https://www.ericgansworth.com/copy-of-give-me-some-truth
"You absolutely cannot maintain authority while tear-gassing people over a rubber dick."
Must read:
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
#fightingFascism one dildo at a time
The dog saw. The world saw. We are responsible for what we do with that knowing. Ken Gorczyca, DVM Veterinary Death Doula and Artist #SundaySentence x 3
