#pretentious quotes

[cat-brodsky]

apparently, checking your sources is not academic enough

that’s sarcasm, by the way

“People. People. Endless noise. And I am so tired. And I would like to sleep under trees; red ones, blue ones, swirling passionate ones.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘒𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘻𝘰𝘷

No, it isn’t! This sounds nothing like Dostoyevsky.

I keep seeing this quote on tumblr. Dostoyevsky’s work is public domain. It takes two minutes to search through “The Brothers Karamazov”.

Fact-check your aesthetic quotes, folks.

[strangelittlestories]

Singing in the face of danger

Speaking harsh truths, beautifully

Punching people who think they’re untouchable

All these are resistance

[cat-brodsky]

homer did not say that

This is from Troy (2004), spoken by Brad Pitt as straight!Achilles.

This is the second post I’ve seen that makes this exact mistake.

[cat-brodsky]

didn’t know genhgis khan was into cottagecore

Genghis Khan never said that. Somerset Maugham (allegedly) did. Source: quoteinvestigator (dot) com/2012/08/06/succeed-fail/

what did i say about checking sources?, part 2

[cat-brodsky]

edgar allan poe did not say that, either (part 3)

thepoeblog (dot) org/did-poe-really-say-that/ no, he did not

What does “to write as mysterious as a cat” even mean?!

[cat-brodsky]

Edgar Allan Poe did not say that (part 2)

thepoeblog (dot) org/did-poe-really-say-that/ Apparently, that was his biographer, John Alexander Joyce, who invented this quote on Poe’s behalf.

if you don’t check your sources, you are weak, your bloodline is weak, and you will not survive university

[pumpkinspicedlosers]

At least the new pic gives you a better idea of what kind of shit I post

[of-bookmarks-and-buffering]

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.

Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You