#great authors

[onefootin1941]

F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda. NY 1921

[thingswereadtoday]

I updated my Beatles fanfic recommendations last week, adding several stories. George Harrison is my favorite so expect that to be reflected in my recommendations.

[krumpkin]

This is a review of the ( Times - Greatest Science Fiction Novels ) by the great channel ( Fell purpose ) . I've not really been covering books on the blog as much as I should but hopefully I can start adding more. This is well worth a watch 😁

[authorissitohbi]

[wisdom-and-such]

“Let one mold himself in accordance with the precepts he teaches…”.

Section 12: verse 3

Dhammapada (oldest surviving sayings attributed directly to the Shakyamuni Buddha).

(This version translated from the Pali Cannon by Ananda Maitreya).

[wctruitt]

“…it is worth while from time to time to take a look backward, and to consider what those endured who went before us. To most of us our own life is almost the only struggle worth considering, and wrapped up in our personal affairs, we do not remember the stupendous difficulties faced by our forebears, who conquered this country and made possible its development, and the ease and luxury in which we to-day have a part.”

Excerpt from Beyond the Old Frontier ~ written by George Bird Grinnell [originally published – 1913]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Illud autem vide, ne ista lectio auctorum multorum et omnis generis voluminum habeat aliquid vagum et instabile. Certis ingeniis inmorari et innutriri oportet, si velis aliquid trahere, quod in animo fideliter sedeat.

- Seneca, Moral Epistle 2.1-3

But beware! Don’t let that reading of a wide number of authors and every kind of text make you absent-minded and flighty. It is best to tarry among a set number of generational talents and soak up their work, if you want to get ideas that will take firm root in your mind.