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• The Iliad • “The sandy field, the gear of • The Iliad •

“The sandy field, the gear of men grew wet with salt tears, for they missed him bitterly, the man who turned the battle tide. Akhilleus led them in repeated cries of grief, laying his deadly hands upon his friend: ‘Patróklus, peace be with you in the dark where Death commands, aye, even there. You see I shall have done soon all I promised you: I dragged Hektor this far to give wild dogs his flesh and let them rend it among themselves, and I have brought twelve radiant sons of Troy whose throats I’ll cut to bloody your great pyre, such a fury came upon me at your death.’” ____________________________________________________#homer #theiliad #achilles #hector #theodyssey #classic #classicliterature #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookquotes #bookreview #pipesmoking #tobaccopipe #classiclit #epic #ancienthistory #igtpc #keepreading #pipesandpages
• “The trickiest moves on any climb are the me •
“The trickiest moves on any climb are the mental ones, the psychological gymnastics that keep terror in check, and the Eiger’s grim aura is intimidating enough to rattle anyone’s poise.” ____________________________________________________#eigerdreams #jonkrakauer #intothinair #bookstagram #bookquotes #bibliophile #pipesmoking #tobaccopipe #nonfiction #journalism #mountaineering #alpine #julbo #sherpa #nonfictionbooks #keepclimbing #keepreading
• “To talk about the Bluegrass is always to g •

“To talk about the Bluegrass is always to go down to the limestone. Everything an outsider associates with central Kentucky has to do with the rock beneath it: the subtle hills; Mammoth Cave, the Civil War; the spring water that goes into Bourbon whiskey; the slate walls that encircle the oldest horse farms; even the horses themselves, for some claim that the unusually rich calcium in the deposits that underlie Lexington finds its way into the bones of the foals that graze their. One could almost say that in Lexington’s case, geology was destiny.” ___________________________________________________ #bloodhorses #johnjeremiahsullivan #nonfictionbooks #bookstagram #bibliophile #nonfiction #bookquotes #horseracing #horses #pipesmoking #tobacco #americana #books #kentucky #horse keepreading #pipesandpages
• “The silence is Thick, Pam thought. I can f •

“The silence is Thick, Pam thought. I can feel it. She stared up at the dark Christmas tree, then to the side of it to the balconies that overlooked them. Was someone standing up there? No, of course not...”__________________________________________________ #fearstreet #silentnight #rlstine #childrensbooks #horror #bookstagram #bibliophile #pipesmoking #tobaccopipe #happyholidays #pipes #keepreading #pipesandpages
• “What if all our anger and fear is unwarrant •
“What if all our anger and fear is unwarranted? What if world events are unfolding in perfect order to deliver us to a distant joy we can't conceive of at this time? Please consider that the next ending will be the happy one.” ____________________________________________________ #considerthis #chuckpalahniuk #writing #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookquotes #nonfiction #pipesmoking #book #keepreading #tobaccopipe #meerschaum #pipesandpages
• “General, I have been a soldier all my life •

“General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arranged for battle can take that position.” ___________________________________________________ #jameslongstreet #americancivilwar #militaryhistory #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookquotes #civilwar #cigar #americanhistory #cigars #keepreading #pipesandpages
• “There was an ascetic aspect to the Marines •

“There was an ascetic aspect to the Marines that appealed to me. They seemed to be a rejection of the male examples I was running from, men who relied on anger, intimidation, and physical force to make up for their own deficiencies and inabilities to effectively communicate. The Marines never stopped talking about attention to detail. They projected self-control and restraint while being forceful and aggressive. Physically, the Marines had a uniform hardness and physical fitness the Navy people just did not seem to possess. They were clearly more disciplined, more demanding.” ____________________________________________________ “That was the day I understood United States Marines. The Marines are people who never quit, simply because they promise to always be faithful. That was the day I understood Tom Schueman and how much he cares for people. He never stopped working. He never stopped trying to make the situation better. It was the day I knew he would always be there for me if I needed him.” ____________________________________________________ #alwaysfaithful #semperfidelis #marines #afghanistan #bookstagram #bookquotes #bibliophile #pipesmoking #keepreading #petersonpipes #usmc #pipesandpages
• “In old Norse times, the thrones of the sea •

“In old Norse times, the thrones of the sea-loving Danish kings were fabricated, saith tradition, of the tusks of the Narwhal. How could one look at Ahab then, seated on that tripod of bones, without bethinking him of the royalty it symbolized? For a Khan of the plank, and a king of the sea and a great lord of Leviathans was Ahab.”
__________________________________________________  #mobydickmondays #mobydick #thewhale #ahab #hermanmelville #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookreviews #pipetobacco #pipesmoking #benwade #books #quote #americanliterature #classicliterature #seastory #whaling #tobacco #igtpc #pipes #keepreading #pipesandpages
• “From time to time, people have asked in wh •

“From time to time, people have asked in what ways the war changed me. I have never known how to answer this question because ultimately the war didn’t change me; the war made me. It is so deeply ingrained in my psyche that I have a difficult time separating the parts of me that exist because of it from the parts that exist despite it.” ____________________________________________________ “What is unspoken in this logic is that if the American people knew how poorly the war was going, they would‘ve mobilized to end it, much as they did to eventually end the Vietnam War. That mobilization never comes for Afghanistan. This isn’t because of a lack of “truth” or of “facts.” It is because of a lack of interest. 
As Kabul falls, it is disorienting to see Americans newly interested in Afghanistan. Policy makers and military professionals certainly deserve blame for this debacle. And yet the American people share the burden of this blame too.” ___________________________________________________ #thefifthact #elliotackerman #afghanistan #pipesandpages
• “When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers ha •
“When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the solar system. What does one do with the coexistence of those details in a lifetime’s view?” ____________________________________________________#pulphead #johnjeremiahsullivan #essay #bookquotes #bookstagram #bibliophile #nonfiction #fatherdempsey #pipesmoking #tobacco #keepreading #pipesandpages
• Upon his retirement, Chesty Puller exclaimed a •
Upon his retirement, Chesty Puller exclaimed all he would need for the remainder of his life was his wife’s cooking and a daily tin of pipe tobacco. 
____________________________________________________ #chestypuller #fivenavycrosses #marine #pipesmoking #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookquotes #usmc #igtpc #tobaccopipe #marines #pipesandpages #keepreading
• “He enjoyed the soft sound of night wind and •
“He enjoyed the soft sound of night wind and the knowledge that he was the only boy — perhaps the only human being — out there in the dark on the windy, frozen-grass meadows on this night that smelled of coming snow, alienated from the lighted windows and the warm hearths, very aware that he was of the village but not part of it at that moment. It was a thrilling, almost erotic feeling — an illicit discovery of self separated from everyone and everything else in the cold and dark.” ___________________________________________________ #theterror #dansimmons #horror #hmsterror #hmserebus #northwestpassage #horrorliterature #bookstagram #read #book #corncobpipe #igtpc #bibliophile #pipesmoking #tobacco #bookquotes #keepreading #pipesandpages
• "Ever since this nation became the arsenal of •

"Ever since this nation became the arsenal of democracy – ever since enactment of Lend-Lease – there has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power – but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. 
From Berlin, Rome, and Tokyo we have been described as a nation of weaklings – 'playboys' – who would hire British soldiers, or Russian soldiers, or Chinese soldiers to do our fighting for us. Let them repeat that now! Let them tell that to General MacArthur and his men. Let them tell that to the sailors who today are hitting hard in the far waters of the Pacific. Let them tell that to the boys in the Flying Fortresses. Let them tell that to the Marines!" ____________________________________________________ #towakethegiant #jeffshaara #pearlharbor #pearlharborday #pipesmoking #tobaccopipes #bookstagram #bibliophile #read #bookquotes #tellthattothemarines #pipesandpages
• “I wanted real adventures to happen to mysel •
“I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.” ____________________________________________________ “My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.” ____________________________________________________#dubliners #jamesjoyce #bookstagram #bibliophile #book #read #pipesmoking #pipetobacco #irishliterature #dublin #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookquotes #pipesandpages
• “And when they're old enough I'm going to te •
“And when they're old enough I'm going to tell my little girls that everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough, and if, you can't look that close then you don't really love them. All the while life goes around. And if you keep waiting for somebody perfect you'll never find love, because it's how much you love them is what makes them perfect.” ____________________________________________________ #chuckpalahniuk #considerthis #makesomethingup #read #chuckpalahniukquotes #bookquotes #bookstagram #write #bibliophile #moonshine #moonshinepipes #pipetobacco #nonfiction #readmorebooks #keepreading #pipesandpages
• “Seasickness-wise, though, it turns out that •
“Seasickness-wise, though, it turns out that heavy seas are sort of like battle: there’s no way to know ahead of time how you’ll react. A test of the deep and involuntary stuff of man.” ____________________________________________________#asupposedlyfunthingillneverdoagain #davidfosterwallace #nonfiction #journalism #essays #infinitejest #pipesmoking #tobaccopipe #bibliophile #bookstagram #bookquotes #tobacco #books #igtpc #keepreading #pipesandpages
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