“Like all young reporters – brilliant or hopelessly incompetent – I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits – the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.”
– Russell Baker
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“Your perception of the world is a gift.”
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Divinity was seen incarnate; through perfected mortality man was immortal.
— Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way
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For the request thingy, can you draw a gazelle or deer?
Decided to have a bit of fun with this and make it companion pieces!
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Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we're not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason for committing thoughtcrime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.
--- 1984, by George Orwell.
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“I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.🌿”
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Rainbow Rowell, Carry On
"i didn't let myself dwell on any of the good things, you know? it's the good things that'll drive you mad when missing them"
@/wonder.rkive on instagram
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"wash me of my sins I don't understand why you've forsaken me."
.⊹˚. ♱ .˚⊹.
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