"A Story About Life"
Alison Bechdel for McSweeney's, December 2009
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(distant, echoing) frank, i’ve fallen down a very deep well, is there any way that you can get me out of here?
You are now in my cellar, Frank. You will have to climb out of there on your own. It is a long, difficult climb.
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Detail from "Some Drawers" by Gary Panter, from McSweeney's #13
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From the TMBG collection: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #6 face off with WE NOW KNOW WHO. vs FIND THEM AND CONVINCE THEM. 🙌
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IF PEOPLE IN OTHER PROFESSIONS TALKED ABOUT THEIR JOBS LIKE POETS TALK ABOUT POETRY
By Seth Wade
I am the fire that I fight.
You don’t craft customized soap bars made from organic goat’s milk because you want to craft customized soap bars made from organic goat’s milk; you craft customized soap bars made from organic goat’s milk because you have something to say.
Being a librarian is an act of peace.
Administering medication to elderly patients is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.
Mopping up vomit begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Investment banking is the rhythmical creation of beauty via income inequality.
Starting an OnlyFans is what happens when nothing else can.
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“I marveled: how could life be this painful, this awful, and yet I wanted so much more? I would live forever if you let me.” (“Columbarian”, Nicholas Mancusi)
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"We will not look back and regret this decision. Although we were wrong about not admitting women, abolitioning racial quotas, US involvement in Vietnam, and divesting from apartheid South Africa, we are confident that this time is different.
Rules are rules, and the rules never change."
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