Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you want to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2025 here, and if you would like to see what others had to say about this week’s topic, you can do that here.
My Favorite Quotes from Books
This is very similar to an earlier post, but I went through some of my favourite books again and came up with the following:
“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.” The Color Purple by Alice Walker.
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
“The more we try to avoid the basic reality that all human life involves pain, the more we are likely to struggle with that pain when it arises, thereby creating even more suffering.” The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris.
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” The Lorax by Dr Seuss.
“…on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much – the wheel, New York, wars and so on – whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man – for precisely the same reasons.” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
Well, that’s it for post 29. I look forward to reading some of your favourite quotes.
Thank you, as always, for spending some time with me here today. It means a lot!
Until next time,
George
© 2025 GLT
Categories: life, Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge
GEORGE L THOMAS 
I love that dolphin quote!
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Dr. Seuss was so very quotable… and I love Hitchhiker’s Guide… such a great book!
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I agree, Judy! 😊
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Hah! We have that “Unless someone like you cares a whole lot” sign in our workroom at the library.
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I love Douglas Adams so much. And a John Scalzi quote to go along with yours: “Never swim with the dolphins during a labor dispute!” – Starter Villain
All of these are great though!
Here is my post.
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I love that, Aymee!
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Ah, Hitchhiker’s Guide! I should re-read that. And Frankenstein, too — that’s a great quote. Love the selection here!
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As always, love your post. The Lorax and Hitchhiker’s Guide are fantastic and just so unassumingly profound. I like the one about the inevitability of pain – this was a really important life lesson for me. I’ve got various medical issues and I used to want them to go away and go back to “normal.” It took a long time to accept that that *was* normal for me, and for many other people. I also learned that there’s usually ups and downs to everything. I can’t think of many “good” things that don’t also have a down side, even if it’s just that they inevitably end. I’ve learned a lot about taking the good with the bad, being grateful for the days that are easier, and knowing that nothing is permanent – even suffering. It’s made me better at focusing on right now rather than worrying over past events or what’s yet to come. I’m better now at just… oh, look, a butterfly! You know?
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Yes! I know exactly what you mean 😊
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My go-to writers for quotes are Raymond Chandler and PG Wodehouse. From the first page of Chandler’s ‘Farewell My Lovely’, and in describing Moose Malloy – “he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.’
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Ha! I love that! 😊
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Good quotes. The dolphins may be right…glad I’m human, anyway.
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I almost used Shelley’s quote, George. Love the ones from The Color Purple and The Lorax, too. Thanks for visiting my blog.
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