Why should anyone be excluded from anything? Or ever be denied anything?
Tanner Faust, A Scrapbook of Impertinent Interrogatives.
One thing in particular to which the contemporary artist conforms is the proposition that the artist is (or can be) radically inventive.
Albrecht Luggens, Ways of Serving Time.
If all cultures are equal, then why is it that only one culture—the western Europeans—developed the study of other cultures?
Evelyn Harbuckle, The Signs of Belonging.
Time has but one direction: backward. Photographs point inexorably to the past, to that which is old. As do our thoughts.
Mathew Muntz, Entropic Processes in Architecture.
We have what we believe to be interminable well-being. But it is only a belief. As always, we will find out later whether we were actually well-off. And for how long.
Godfrey Daniel, Inspecting the Time Domain.
Sometimes, we must simply feel our dishonesty. We know it’s there, but we cannot delineate it.
Enos Slaughter, Speaking Out of the Ground.
…the four odes, the three of them and Alleline, four and twenty blackbirds, the three dimensions, a baker’s dozen, the seven long years,….
Baldwin Tavinger, Toward a Rhetoric of Number.
The 21st century mortgage crisis was like the Tulip Mania, only without the restraint and level-headedness.
Jason Somerset, The Economic Properties of Bubbles.
“Accepting” is judging something or someone to be “acceptable”. You are not escaping judgment; you are engaging in a particular form of it.
Hecuba Gathers, A Purely Physical World.
Concerning our ongoing adoration of the sex-obsessed, we are so thoroughly ridiculous that we don’t merit the effort that would be entailed by parody.
Roderick Hewes, Introduction to the World of Light.
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