Being deliberately confrontational—in art or in writing—is a form of luxury.
Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.
Middlebrow: refers to behavior such as use of the term “middlebrow”.
Callista Ralph, Alphabet Soup.
Words take us only to other words. Actually, there is no movement.
Otto Versing, A Tale of the Three Engineers.
Janet spoke as though she had just chucked something into the pond.
Christopher Ennis, The Case of the Broken Handle.
Disclaimer: No actor was emotionally harmed during production of this motion picture.
Jeremy Breedlove, A Sardonic View of the Movies.
Not quite slang:
—in a toothy place
—slow as old bones
—bucket legs
—a trotter’s pardon
—it’s clam time
—pile of pea pods
—knocking knickers
—Sir Whim of Wham
—a bad case of the honkus bonkus
Tessa Fields and Constance Gogarty, A Book of Lists.
I believe it was Chesterton who claimed that the insane are excessively logical. And that only their assumptions are irrational.
Gaddis Gann, Essays on the Pre-Socratics.
We only entertain the thoughts we have. Ever. That is all.
Octavius Kinder, A Sustainable Unhappiness.
“I want to do something well—very well—and then be congratulated and admired for it. Preferably something creative.” At long last, Kyle has settled upon a viable plan of action.
Charles Jeffrey Yett, Writing in Miniature—Vol. Three.
A lump of old carpeting is an ambiguous presence in the landscape. Is it a big rock? Is it a mound of rubbish? What the hell is it?
William Tyree, A Murder in Three Parts.
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