Making up for lost QOTD yesterday:
'[William Faulkner] thinks I don't know the $10 words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.' -Ernest Hemingway
Although these two extraordinary writers, Faulkner and Hemingway, were awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in subsequent years (Faulkner in 1949, Hemingway in 1950), their styles -- from their settings to their morals to their approach to literature to the very language they used -- could not have been much more different, as Hemingway notes in today's quote.
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'No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.' -Barbara Ehrenreich
Writer, activist and keen social critic Barbara Ehrenreich is a cancer survivor and the author of over 20 books, including Nickel and Dimed, an expose in which she went undercover to try and get by on a low-wage job. The book argued that many of the allegations made against people receiving welfare and other forms of government help -- namely that they're lazy and only want a handout -- were patently false.
