Dostoevsky v pornography (Afghanistan edition)

Porn is prevalent, more prevalent than Dostoevsky.

- Dan Clements, in The Times

Similarity

My mother said, "Oh, it's as dark as a grave."
I thought for a moment. How did my mother know how dark a grave is?
"Have you ever been in a grave?" I asked her.
"Stop being silly," she chided as she went to find candles.
My older sister had been doing her homework. "There is no electricity in a grave, idiot," she said. "Of course it is dark."

- Qais Akbar Omar, A Fort of Nine Towers

'Needless to say, ...'

an attempt to instrumentalise or "weaponise" poetry for the purposes of fighting "the cultural war" is probably not something the US military should be engaged in.

- Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, Poetry of the Taliban

Books I've actually finished lately: 77

Books I've actually finished lately: 51

Men went to Catterick with the dawn,
Their ardours shortened their lives.

- Y Gododdin, c. 7th century

Favourite footnotes: 3

Responding to the publication of the book One Hundred Authors Against Einstein, a work ostensibly directed at his physics, Albert Einstein said, 'If I were wrong, then one would have been enough.'

- Zia Haider Rahman, In The Light Of What We Know