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…when the only form of rebellion available to young men is to be masculine.

T. Johnson Boswell,  Now I Am Lying.

“The world actually is a comic book.”

Giles Coxe-Coburn, Belief in Insects.

What a world of things we inhabit.  And all these things—without exception—must be designed.  We dwell in a designed world.

Hannah Hooke, The Hildebrandt Method.

“Don’t we owe it to posterity,” exclaimed Brad, “to try every single idea?”

Mark Anthony, The Tale of the Mirror.

…thoughts as black as the ink they were set down with.

Silas Burbage, The Adventurous Half-Life of Buddy Boyo.

Psychology:  a powerful antidote to common sense.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

Surely what appears in the rubble will be shining and good….

Agatha Vox, When Everything Was Singing.

Life is fair.

Terence Theodore, Proverbs for a New Era.

—You must realize that Roderick is bitterly contemptuous of architects.  All architects.

—A bit of an easy target, aren’t they?

—Well, yes.  Of course.

Philip Cavendish, Tilly’s Treasury of Colloquial Bits.

Burglary is just microscopic voyeurism.

Gwen Tunder, The Soda Pop Murders.