> What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? — George Eliot (@GeorgeEliot_) March 13, 2020 [https://twitter.com/…
> "Above all, I think, a physical shock like COVID-19 is a reminder that the world is a physical place," @billmckibben [https://twitter.com/billmckibben?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] writes, in his latest newsletter. "That’s easy to forget when we apprehend it mostly through screens."…
> "As you grow older you become an immigrant from a vanished country, a country some of your peers may remember but the young may find unimaginable or incomprehensible."#ReadMoreWomen [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReadMoreWomen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] https://t.co/DJl8fQTvhW — Read More…
> More museums should do this ... routinely. Not everyone has availability to visit in their traditional opening hours. It’s 2 a.m. at the Louvre, and You’re Hanging With Leonardo https://t.co/WgkGSRGO3B — Jeffrey Cufaude (he/him) (@jc46202) February 29, 2020 [https://twitter.com/jc46202/status/1233714708227772419?…
> “Do not try to fight wordy people with more words: speech is given to all, but wisdom of the soul to few.” Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis: Sermo datur cunctis, animi sapientia paucis. #DictaCatonis [https://twitter.com/hashtag/DictaCatonis?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] — sententiae antiquae (@sentantiq)…
> For Lent this year, I would like to give up the news — I would like to give up the president himself for Lent this year — but life in a democracy does not afford such luxuries. Margaret Renkl in One Tiny Beautiful Thing [https://nyti.ms/2vUmM65] I am so…
> My mom: “You never email or text anymore.” Me: “I text and email every day.” My mom: “Well you don’t text and email nearly as much as Michael does.” Me: “Michael?” My mom: “Michael Bloomberg.” Me: “Mom, I’m not running for president.” My mom: “Well, there’s…
> A teacher isn’t meant to make you feel better; only to make you look harder, which often in truth amounts to feeling worse. — Pico Iyer (@PicoIyer) February 16, 2020 [https://twitter.com/PicoIyer/status/1228865290366111744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…