There was plenty of good wine, but you could drink it only out of your cupped hands.
Park V. Kessler, Nearly Happy.
I was able to abandon drinking, and I was able to get past my attachment to money and the luxuries made accessible by it. But I have never succeeded in escaping self-absorption.
Tristram Speaker, A Book of Postulates.
“If I were to move a chair more than an inch or two, I would violate the aesthetic integrity of damn near everything. That fairly well sums up my experience with interior design.”
Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.
“But I’m not speaking about a place, Mr. Humphries. I am speaking about a time.”
Heywood Wakefield, The Humdrum Demon.
The pun doesn’t dissolve meaning, it multiplies it. There is more meaning than we had thought.
Jason Starling, Scale in Literature.
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