It’s that the lies are so familiar to them. They jump into the whole mess as though stepping into a nice pair of boots.
Hill Boothby, Essays on Disappointment Management.
“And down it all went,” said Elfwick in his softest voice. “Like a mournful Buster Keaton, wondering what has happened. All the way down to the pavement.”
Adrian Knowles, Listen to Me.
We know society—or civilization—as a continuous phenomenon. We have yet to experience it on a sporadic basis.
Olmstead Trent III, The History of Objects.
Answers have consequences.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
What the conspirator sees is planning (not conspiracy).
Desmond Urquhart, The Unsocial Sciences.
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