Danielle Crittenden’s upcoming memoir, Dispatches from Grief: A Mother’s Journey Through the Unthinkable, was excerpted this week in The Atlantic: On Losing a Daughter.
The book is a staggering depiction of grief and a beautiful portrayal of the daughter Danielle lost. We’re proud to be publishing it at Infinite Books.
Dispatches From Grief will be published on 5 May. You can pre-order your copy on our website or on Amazon.
Sunday, 19 April
Two thoughts from Rosa Luxemburg
“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.”
“Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
Monday, 20 April
Two thoughts from Jean-Luc Godard
“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
“It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take things to.”
Tuesday, 21 April
Two thoughts from Stanley Kubrick
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.”
Wednesday, 22 April
Two thoughts from Paramahansa Yogananda
“Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.”
“In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.”
Thursday, 23 April
Two thoughts from John Holt
“To a very great degree, school is a place where children learn to be stupid.”
“Figuring out what you don’t know or aren’t sure of is the greatest intellectual skill of all.”
Friday, 24 April
Two thoughts from Donna Tartt
“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
“The world won’t come to me… so I must go to it.”
Saturday, 25 April
Two thoughts from George Pólya
“It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.”
“Good problems and mushrooms of certain kinds have something in common; they grow in clusters.”
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Dear Jim,
Great quotes! Some of my faves this week:
Donna Tartt:
“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
“The world won’t come to me… so I must go to it.”
Rosa Luxemburg:
“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.”
“Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
Stanley Kubrick:
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
Paramahansa Yogananda:
“Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.”
John Holt:
“Figuring out what you don’t know or aren’t sure of is the greatest intellectual skill of all.”
Jean-Luc Godard:
“It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take things to.”
“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
George Pólya:
“It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.”
Thank you for sharing as always!
Love
Myq