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"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it." - Margaret Atwood.
"The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it." - Margaret Atwood.
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2 comments:
Wow, those basically define our generation in a nutshell.
This post is for those who came of age in the 2000s. A period in history that doesn't really have a name or any namesakes (the first comic).
We seek uber cool terms and have extensive online social lives (2).
We get married (something we once showed aversion to), and pass on the "mom-curse" (3 & 4).
Since materialism does not garner the same positive response that it did in our parents generation, because of our need to go green, and now due to the economic fallout, we find other ways to be different. Be it through our unique music taste(5).
The last comic is a dedication to my friend's grandfather, a practising Catholic, who invites Jehovah's witness volunteers to his house and argues with them, until the poor volunteer promises to never show his face again.
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