Marty G
@martyg1991.bsky.social
“I’m not a magician, Spock, just an old country doctor “
Posting topical quotes from Michigan.
Posting topical quotes from Michigan.
“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
October 7, 2026 at 2:53 PM
“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
October 6, 2026 at 8:14 PM
“And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
“Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.”
Albert Camus, The Plague
Albert Camus, The Plague
October 5, 2026 at 11:51 PM
“Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.”
Albert Camus, The Plague
Albert Camus, The Plague
“The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.”
Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day
October 5, 2026 at 4:11 AM
“The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.”
Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day
“If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own-which it is-and render impassable with our bodies the corridors to the gas chamber. For if they come for you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
October 4, 2026 at 12:12 PM
“If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own-which it is-and render impassable with our bodies the corridors to the gas chamber. For if they come for you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
“I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.”
John Brown
John Brown
October 2, 2026 at 6:35 PM
“I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.”
John Brown
John Brown
“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.”
Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
October 1, 2026 at 3:03 PM
“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.”
Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
“Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.”
Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
September 30, 2026 at 12:55 PM
“Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.”
Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
“the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam, who as soon as there was any trouble, blamed it all on her.”
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
September 29, 2026 at 5:15 PM
“the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam, who as soon as there was any trouble, blamed it all on her.”
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
“I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.”
Robert H. Jackson
Robert H. Jackson
September 28, 2026 at 12:06 PM
“I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.”
Robert H. Jackson
Robert H. Jackson
“When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
Euripides, Orestes
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
Euripides, Orestes
September 27, 2026 at 7:05 PM
“When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
Euripides, Orestes
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
Euripides, Orestes
“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
September 27, 2026 at 2:26 AM
“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“As for our Ouija-board Supreme Court, it would be nice if they would take time off from holding séances with the long-dead founders, whose original intent so puzzles them, and actually examine what the founders wrought, the Constitution itself and the Bill of Rights.”
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
September 25, 2026 at 1:44 PM
“As for our Ouija-board Supreme Court, it would be nice if they would take time off from holding séances with the long-dead founders, whose original intent so puzzles them, and actually examine what the founders wrought, the Constitution itself and the Bill of Rights.”
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
“The definition of intelligence is the ability to defy your own programming.”
C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust
C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust
September 24, 2026 at 4:15 PM
“The definition of intelligence is the ability to defy your own programming.”
C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust
C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust
“Yes, Juris thought. Keep trying. Keep finding wrongs, and naming them, and trying to make them right. Never stop. Even now.”
Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
September 23, 2026 at 12:36 PM
“Yes, Juris thought. Keep trying. Keep finding wrongs, and naming them, and trying to make them right. Never stop. Even now.”
Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
“Freedom granted by your rulers is just a chain with a little slack.”
Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant
September 22, 2026 at 2:35 PM
“Freedom granted by your rulers is just a chain with a little slack.”
Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant
“And so, with the innate loathing that all machines had always held for the weak, soft creatures who had built them, he had sought revenge.”
Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
September 21, 2026 at 12:08 PM
“And so, with the innate loathing that all machines had always held for the weak, soft creatures who had built them, he had sought revenge.”
Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
“With few ambitions, most people allowed efficient machines to perform everyday tasks for them. Gradually, humans ceased to think, or dream... or truly live.”
Brian Herbert, The Butlerian Jihad
Brian Herbert, The Butlerian Jihad
September 20, 2026 at 4:40 PM
“With few ambitions, most people allowed efficient machines to perform everyday tasks for them. Gradually, humans ceased to think, or dream... or truly live.”
Brian Herbert, The Butlerian Jihad
Brian Herbert, The Butlerian Jihad
“The steward had been more circumspect after that. He had learned - as Odysseus had learned after a certain number of years of his wanderings - that his guile was no match for the world and that hubris would always be punished by the gods.”
Dan Simmons, The Terror
Dan Simmons, The Terror
September 19, 2026 at 5:29 PM
“The steward had been more circumspect after that. He had learned - as Odysseus had learned after a certain number of years of his wanderings - that his guile was no match for the world and that hubris would always be punished by the gods.”
Dan Simmons, The Terror
Dan Simmons, The Terror
“I’m a scientist; because I invent, transform, create, and destroy for a living, and when I don’t like something about the world, I change it.”
— Pickle Rick
— Pickle Rick
September 18, 2026 at 7:37 PM
“I’m a scientist; because I invent, transform, create, and destroy for a living, and when I don’t like something about the world, I change it.”
— Pickle Rick
— Pickle Rick
“Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.”
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre
September 17, 2026 at 6:21 PM
“Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.”
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre
“Mother Nature was one angry slut. She'd try and kill you the first chance she got. You'd screwed with her for so long that she was happy to eliminate you.”
Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce
Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce
September 16, 2026 at 12:31 PM
“Mother Nature was one angry slut. She'd try and kill you the first chance she got. You'd screwed with her for so long that she was happy to eliminate you.”
Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce
Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce
“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.”
Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf
Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf
September 15, 2026 at 1:40 PM
“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.”
Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf
Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf
“Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.”
Alice Munro
Alice Munro
September 14, 2026 at 2:22 PM
“Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.”
Alice Munro
Alice Munro
“It seems to me that our lives are consumed by countless wasting years, but only a few shining moments. I missed mine. Yes is what I should have said. Of course I should have said yes.”
Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here
Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here
September 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
“It seems to me that our lives are consumed by countless wasting years, but only a few shining moments. I missed mine. Yes is what I should have said. Of course I should have said yes.”
Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here
Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here