Abbey and Voltaire plus other reflections.

“How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your TV; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.” ― Edward Abbey Some big assumptions there but similar to Voltaire’s advice.

Snippy

William Faulkner: Hemingway, he has no courage, has never crawled out on a limb. He has never been known to use a word that might cause the reader to check with a dictionary to see if it is properly used.   Ernest Hemingway: Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? …

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