Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialLife is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialReaders, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOnly a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe "Terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCounterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and powerful.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThere is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThere is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAh yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
@processorpress.bsky.socialThe first thing you notice about Netflix’s newest venture, Feral, is that it’s a mash‑up of everything the streaming giant can’t decide between: a jungle saga, a family‑friendly drama, and a…
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhat draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOne man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialSentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHigh technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIt is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWe're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMeantime, I'm going to gnaw on this sparerib, drink my Blatz beer, and contemplate the a posteriori coordinates of that young blonde over yonder, the one in the tennis skirt, tying her shoelaces.