Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 8h“There is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.” Truman Capote, “The Thanksgiving Visitor” 020
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"For neither good nor evil can last forever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted so long, good must now be close at hand." Miguel de Cervantes, "Don Quixote" 110
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Nobody who lived through the '50s thought the '60s could've existed. So there's always hope.” Tuli Kupferberg, Mojo magazine, 2008. 031
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable.” Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener” 021
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?” Rachel Carson, “Silent Spring” 000
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.” T.S. Eliot, “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism” 010
Reposted by Michael BlevonsLucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We may see people pulled out of voting lines and asked for their citizenship papers. That’s how bad it could get after today’s Supreme Court order. Buckle up. Election day is going to be a fight like we have never seen. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-suprem...luciantruscott.substack.comThe Supreme Court just sicced ICE on our voting rightsThis by far the most dangerous thing that could possibly happen before the midterm elections. 188
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” William Faulkner, “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters” 041
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the ‘impossible,’ come true.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up” 000
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?” Fannie Flagg, “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe” 010
Reposted by Michael BlevonsLucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It’s heartening to see the networks show a spine in the face of Trump’s authoritarian violation of the First Amendment. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/major-netw...luciantruscott.substack.comMajor networks stand up to Trump and suspend White House pool coverageIt has finally happened. 082
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." H.G. Wells, "The Outline of History" 011
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” Stephen King, “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” 010
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?” Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “My Own Words” 021
Reposted by Michael BlevonsLucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026When you were a child, you were treated kind But you were never brought up right You were always spoiled with a thousand toys But still you cried all night… Here it comes, here it comes Your 19th nervous breakdown. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/waaaaaaaaa...luciantruscott.substack.comWaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Trump throws a tantrum over the Kennedy Center.It will hardly surprise you to learn that Donald Trump had his 19th nervous breakdown yesterday over the John F. 063
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.” Robert B. Parker, “A Catskill Eagle” 000
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.” Annie Dillard, “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” Godspeed, Annie. 051
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026“There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.” Robert Benchley, “Of All Things” 031
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44691/...poetryfoundation.orgAmericaAlthough she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I will confess I love this cultured… 011
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026“Why is it that we are always strangers in this world, and never come to know one another, and are full of fear and shame and hate and falseness, when what we want is love? Why is it? Why? Why? Why?” Thomas Wolfe, “Of Time and The River” 011
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.” Geraldine Brooks, “People of the Book” 011
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life." Sherwood Anderson, "Winesburg, Ohio" 010
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to.” Leonard Peltier, “Prison Writings” 052
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.” Stanislaw Lem, “Solaris” 011
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"Knowledge is a strong stream of water turned on us through a hose. It disturbs our roots." O. Henry, "The Higher Pragmatism" 000
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.” D.H. Lawrence, “Lady Chatterley's Lover” 021
