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“How can one avoid looking at photographs?” demanded Mr. Tarquin.  “Where is the photo-free zone?”

Adrian Knowles,  Now Listen to Me.

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I thought, therefore I was.

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

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If everything is ironic, there is no irony.

Olmstead Trent III,  The History of Objects.

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He solemnly declares that “a statement always undermines what it asserts.”  So, our statements corrode themselves.  Should we be concerned about this?  And in what way?

Benjamin Alexis, Thriving Under the Influence.

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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

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Make a statement about the world.  Then, make a statement about the statement.  You have just launched an infinite regression.

Chalmers Van Nest, The Trivial Quadrivium.