The more Julia expounded, the more evident it became that what she was urging was not true.
Jonathan Dollar, The Murky Mayhew Matter.
Isn’t it possible that all words are hurtful? Shouldn’t we scrap our written language completely and revert to crude symbols scratched into the earth?
Titus Musgrave, The Enigma of the Box.
“I will not hesitate to design something,” said Devlin with great confidence.
“Oh good!” thought Sondra. “Good, good, good.”
Philip Cavendish, Tilly’s Treasury of Colloquial Bits.
Ours is a culture of short-cuts. Modernist art, therefore, should come as no surprise. And allow me to suggest that nobody is surprised.
Aleister Wainwright, A Game of Skittles.
The cthonic can only ever be shallow.
Addison Quayle, The Ontology of Destruction.
I thing, therefore I am.
Clifford O. Mounce, A Portable Darkness.
Use these words no more: iconic, eponymous, appears, irony, locus, discredited, discriminate, nuance, spiritual, body, narrative, text, judgmental, taxonomy, unfold, grievance, passionate.
Cooper W. Barthelme, A Systems Approach to Advice.
Rein of Terrier
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
Modernity: One important feature of this state of being is the belief that governments can solve problems.
W. Karl Bavinger, The Misanthrope’s Way With Words.
I couldn’t tell whether it was TV, radio, or live voices, but I heard this come from an open door: “Writer! Writer in the area! Warning!”
Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.
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