Tristan Eagling

Add friend

Tristan’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (149)
currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (370)
did-not-finish‎ (0)

didn-t-finish‎ (3)

Stats | More…

Tristan’s Quotes

“If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.”
― Frank Herbert, The Dune Storybook

303 likes

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: goals, journey, travel

3208 likes

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

tags: death, humourous

706 likes

“It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.) ”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

21 likes

“How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: nationalism, patriotism, politics

683 likes

More of Tristan’s quotes…