“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”
Albert Einstein
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Quotations on Strength
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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
John Steinbeck
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“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Book Lovers’ Week!
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I realized that I had somehow missed that August 9 was the day of the unofficial Book Lovers’ Day. So, I have decided, without any authority, of course, that I am declaring the entire week of 8/9/17-8/15/17 to be the unofficial holiday of Book Lovers’ Week!
Why should we celebrate only one day? Let us embrace the week as a period of declaring to the world that we love books!
If you are with me on this idea, please spread the word!
I love books!
Maledicus: The Investigative Paranormal Society Book I by Charles F. French is available for purchase on Amazon either as an ebook or a print book!
Please follow the following links to find my novel:
Thank you!
The book trailer:
Maledicus:Investigative Paranormal Society Book I
My radio interview:
What are you reading?
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Occasionally, I write a post in which I ask this question, and it has been some time, so I wanted to ask all of you again: what are you currently reading?
I am reading Aggravated Momentum by Didi Oviatt;
In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson;
Surrender, New York by Caleb Carr;
and rereading for classes that I teach at the Wescoe School of Muhlenberg College:
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
and Dracula by Bram Stoker.
I wish Happy Reading to all!
Quotations on Thinking (Revisited)
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
“Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. It sees man, a feeble speck, surrounded by unfathomable depths of silence; yet it bears itself proudly, as unmoved as if it were lord of the universe. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man”
(Russell, Bertrand. Why Men Fight 178-9).
“All good writing is inherently subversive.”
Charles F. French
Quotations on Bigotry
StandardI have tried to keep political discussion and commentary out of my blogposts, but there are times that demand commentary. Since World War Two, the U.S. Military has lead the way in integration, and today was a step backwards. Bigotry is justified by a fear of change, and such thinking must be challenged.
“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
Albert Einstein
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“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.”
John E. Lewis
Quotations on Reading
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“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.”
Joyce Carol Oates
