"I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy"

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Source : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alison Bechdel

#Drama Quotes #Parent Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.”
“When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.”
“Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.”
“Software unification. So that I no longer care what computing device I pick up, whether it's a laptop or desktop, whether it's one I own or one in a public place, whether it has a small screen or a large screen.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“Once torched by truth...a little thing like faith is easy.”
“It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.”
“I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense. A 100 percent elimination policy (by Ankara of the Kurds) has forced me to defense and it has become a glorious defense of a people.”
“The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue, Chapman wrote. All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead.”

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