“Even though I don’t like Nigel, I really don’t intend to demean him. Nevertheless, it must be just awful to have such boring thoughts.”
Myrtle Mawby, Cabinets and Drawers, a Novel.
“It does make sense, I tell you. Well, doesn’t it?” Caroline again has embellished her proposition with a mildly taunting interrogative. It is a nasty habit.
Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.
…someone was talking about the “difficulty” that made Parker and Monk jazz “geniuses.” The tone of the remarks was quasi-religious.
Lawrence Rittle, The Fundamentals of Confusion.
Most ideas—including scientific ideas—end up being rejected. Does this mean that we are not good at ideas? That we are exceedingly good at rejecting? What does it mean?
Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.
We did not articulate the rules and boundary conditions of logic first, and then proceed to be “logical.”
Titus Musgrave, The Mystery of Sleep.
[The modernist painters] all played at that game—being the rebel, the downtrodden, the seer, the outsider. I find that anyone who can strap that on in the morning, day after day, year after year, is a fairly dull person.
Aaron Flynders, A Theory of Everything.
Nothing is repeatable. Nothing.
Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.
When is a lie not a lie? When it makes an audience cry.
Tyrone Sommer, Circling the Drain.
An illustration is no argument. And bear in mind the deception of depiction.
Hill Boothby, The Dazzling World of Almost.
Feel the Logic
Terence Theodore, Proverbs for a New Era.
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