Ethan Goode
@etygoode.bsky.social
Thought-provoking quotes from things I’m reading and my daily life. Always remember: “Life without success can also be beautiful.” - Robert Walser
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Ethan Goode
@etygoode.bsky.social
· Jan 8
This is a digital commonplace book.
Quotes from literature. Quotes from history. Quotes I’ve overheard.
Quotes I’ve sought from the machine.
Read along.
#QuoteOfTheDay #LitQuotes #ChatGPTWisdom
Quotes from literature. Quotes from history. Quotes I’ve overheard.
Quotes I’ve sought from the machine.
Read along.
#QuoteOfTheDay #LitQuotes #ChatGPTWisdom
“Do you think you’re the only idiot with criminal secrets and idiotic criminal scenarios, who does idiotic things?” - Denis Johnson, The Laughing Monsters #litquotes
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 PM
“Do you think you’re the only idiot with criminal secrets and idiotic criminal scenarios, who does idiotic things?” - Denis Johnson, The Laughing Monsters #litquotes
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Annihilation (2018)
February 9, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Annihilation (2018)
“The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.” - Daniel Woodrell, Winter’s Bone #QuoteOfTheDay
February 7, 2026 at 2:48 PM
“The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.” - Daniel Woodrell, Winter’s Bone #QuoteOfTheDay
“Somehow he’d not only cheated fate, but also coaxed it to lend him a cigarette” - Denis Johnson, The Laughing Monsters #litquotes
February 7, 2026 at 7:06 AM
“Somehow he’d not only cheated fate, but also coaxed it to lend him a cigarette” - Denis Johnson, The Laughing Monsters #litquotes
“few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall.” - Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945 #dailyquotes
February 3, 2026 at 5:59 AM
“few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall.” - Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945 #dailyquotes
McMurdo Station on Antarctica “has climate controlled housing facilities, […] abominations such as an aerobics studio and yoga classes. It even has an ATM machine.” - Werner Herzog, Encounters at the End of the World #dailyquotes
February 1, 2026 at 7:06 AM
McMurdo Station on Antarctica “has climate controlled housing facilities, […] abominations such as an aerobics studio and yoga classes. It even has an ATM machine.” - Werner Herzog, Encounters at the End of the World #dailyquotes
“Reality is not a fact […] Reality is an impression, a belief. Any magician knows this.” - Denis Johnson, The Laughing Monsters #litquotes #QuoteOfTheDay
January 30, 2026 at 4:00 PM
“Reality is not a fact […] Reality is an impression, a belief. Any magician knows this.” - Denis Johnson, The Laughing Monsters #litquotes #QuoteOfTheDay
“I don’t have to do a god damn thing but sit around and wait to die.” - Sturgill Simpson
January 29, 2026 at 5:50 AM
“I don’t have to do a god damn thing but sit around and wait to die.” - Sturgill Simpson
“Family traits are passed down from generation to generation out of the impenetrable past with no discernible point of origin, but family wealth must begin somewhere.” - Amor Towles, The Didomenico Fragment #litquotes
January 27, 2026 at 12:57 AM
“Family traits are passed down from generation to generation out of the impenetrable past with no discernible point of origin, but family wealth must begin somewhere.” - Amor Towles, The Didomenico Fragment #litquotes
“Many people keep watch, nobody sees.” - Denis Johnson, The Laughing Monsters #dailyquotes #litquotes
January 23, 2026 at 2:21 PM
“Many people keep watch, nobody sees.” - Denis Johnson, The Laughing Monsters #dailyquotes #litquotes
“Privately, we cannot stand our lives and dare not examine them.” - James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time #dailyquotes
January 22, 2026 at 11:44 PM
“Privately, we cannot stand our lives and dare not examine them.” - James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time #dailyquotes
One Battle After Another is the only one I’ve seen. 🤦♂️
January 22, 2026 at 5:58 PM
One Battle After Another is the only one I’ve seen. 🤦♂️
“Human beings are torn by the competing needs of self, family, and tribe. We use culture to banish instinct, or at least tame it, even while using it to create our values.” - Edward O. Wilson, Tales from the Ant World #QuoteOfTheDay
January 22, 2026 at 5:56 PM
“Human beings are torn by the competing needs of self, family, and tribe. We use culture to banish instinct, or at least tame it, even while using it to create our values.” - Edward O. Wilson, Tales from the Ant World #QuoteOfTheDay
“White people were, and are, astounded by the holocaust in Germany. They did not know that they could act that way. But I very much doubt whether black people were astounded—at least, in the same way.” - James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time #dailyquotes
January 21, 2026 at 11:03 PM
“White people were, and are, astounded by the holocaust in Germany. They did not know that they could act that way. But I very much doubt whether black people were astounded—at least, in the same way.” - James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time #dailyquotes
“There’s the old joke about how a guy went broke: gradually at first and then all at once.” - William Neuman, Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse #QuoteOfTheDay
January 21, 2026 at 10:26 PM
“There’s the old joke about how a guy went broke: gradually at first and then all at once.” - William Neuman, Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse #QuoteOfTheDay
“ants are as mean as they have to be in order to protect their home. No more, no less.” - Edward O. Wilson, Tales from the Ant World #QuoteOfTheDay
January 20, 2026 at 3:26 PM
“ants are as mean as they have to be in order to protect their home. No more, no less.” - Edward O. Wilson, Tales from the Ant World #QuoteOfTheDay
“Groups are more immoral than individuals. We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” - MLK JR, Letter from a Birmingham Jail #litquotes
January 19, 2026 at 6:58 PM
“Groups are more immoral than individuals. We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” - MLK JR, Letter from a Birmingham Jail #litquotes
Reposted by Ethan Goode
To deal with the Chicago cold, the Rams had chicken broth and hot chocolate stations available on the sideline. Many players also wore scuba suits under their uniforms.
But they also adopted a more unusual strategy: cayenne pepper in their socks.
But they also adopted a more unusual strategy: cayenne pepper in their socks.
January 19, 2026 at 6:50 PM
To deal with the Chicago cold, the Rams had chicken broth and hot chocolate stations available on the sideline. Many players also wore scuba suits under their uniforms.
But they also adopted a more unusual strategy: cayenne pepper in their socks.
But they also adopted a more unusual strategy: cayenne pepper in their socks.
“Learn to fear. To share fear is the greatest bond of all.” - J. A. Baker, The Peregrine #QuoteOfTheDay #litquotes
January 19, 2026 at 4:31 PM
“Learn to fear. To share fear is the greatest bond of all.” - J. A. Baker, The Peregrine #QuoteOfTheDay #litquotes
“‘It’s a pity he cannot kill himself with drink,’ said Heathcliff, muttering an echo of curses … ‘He’s doing his very utmost; but his constitution defies him.’” - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
January 18, 2026 at 8:06 PM
“‘It’s a pity he cannot kill himself with drink,’ said Heathcliff, muttering an echo of curses … ‘He’s doing his very utmost; but his constitution defies him.’” - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff’s dwelling. ‘Wuthering’ being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.” #litquotes
January 17, 2026 at 2:27 PM
“Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff’s dwelling. ‘Wuthering’ being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.” #litquotes
“I have always longed to be a part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to the town as a stranger.” - J. A. Baker, The Peregrine #dailyquotes
January 16, 2026 at 1:48 PM
“I have always longed to be a part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to the town as a stranger.” - J. A. Baker, The Peregrine #dailyquotes
“As Machiavelli noted, ‘Men desire novelty to such an extent that those who are doing well wish for a change as much as those who are doing badly.’” - James Clear, Atomic Habits #QuoteOfTheDay
January 15, 2026 at 1:41 PM
“As Machiavelli noted, ‘Men desire novelty to such an extent that those who are doing well wish for a change as much as those who are doing badly.’” - James Clear, Atomic Habits #QuoteOfTheDay
“When you spin fictions within fictions, if you do it long enough, even the fiction weavers may wind up losing their way, caught in the hall of mirrors they created.” - William Neuman #QuoteOfTheDay
January 15, 2026 at 11:13 AM
“When you spin fictions within fictions, if you do it long enough, even the fiction weavers may wind up losing their way, caught in the hall of mirrors they created.” - William Neuman #QuoteOfTheDay
“two groups of people facing each other on opposite sides of a street, shouting at the top of their lungs: insults, arguments, slogans. And each of them was shouting so loud … they couldn’t hear what the people on the other side of the street were shouting. Meanwhile, the street itself was a ruin”
January 13, 2026 at 12:15 PM
“two groups of people facing each other on opposite sides of a street, shouting at the top of their lungs: insults, arguments, slogans. And each of them was shouting so loud … they couldn’t hear what the people on the other side of the street were shouting. Meanwhile, the street itself was a ruin”