Literary Meme Cards

Sometimes I have deep thoughts (shout-out to Jack Handey) — ones I think might belong on a bumper sticker or t-shirt or needlepoint pillow. Then I realize I’m probably ripping off channeling some famous writer or philosopher or whatever. So I dig up the source material and ask Claude (yes, I occasionally use A.I.) to make it pretty.

These are those.

Feel free to copy and share anything that resonates. Or don’t. As William Ernest Henley sort of once said, you are the captain of your own ship …

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The O.G.: “Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.” — from Flannery O’Connor’s essay “The Nature and Aim of Fiction” in Mystery and Manners

The O.G.: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." — from the preface of the 1966 edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Mother Night

The O.G.: Honestly, it’s kinda complicated/disputed. You can read all about it here.