“…that there should be awards for struggling. Simply for the struggle itself, regardless of any results.”
Martin Sotheby, The Story of Hubert Ambrose.
“I do not own myself,” said Thomas. And he could not help wondering who, or what, did own him. The Creator? The society? The family? “The existentialist says that we do–or can—own ourselves. Thoroughly. Completely. But he makes this claim in a language that he does not own.”
Charles Jeffrey Yett, Writing in Miniature—Vol. Three.
An unusual public sign: LOCUSTS WELCOME HERE.
Todd Lapidus, Headlines, Captions, and Other Schemes.
Concerning how many things in our ordinary daily life may we say, “It is like a river“?
Otis Oswald, 900 Delphic Questions.
It’s not so much that I dislike modernism. It’s that I am a realist about it. I do not swallow the pill. I’m sorry, but I do see the anemia.
Benedict Symes, A Meditation on Periodicity.
—It’s just a figure of speech, Janice.
—Well, I suppose that makes it all okay then. Doesn’t it?
Philip Cavendish, Tilly’s Treasury of Colloquial Bits.
sin tents
scent acts
passed tints
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
In an old book, long out of print, I found these lines: “Any Whig, upon being given a time machine, would return to the past and preach against the evils of Whiggishness after experiencing even the slightest glimpse of a Whig future.”
Roderick Hewes, Introduction to the World of Light.
One effective way to annihilate fact is to insist that we formulate a theory of fact.
Lawrence Rittle, The Fundamentals of Confusion.
“Mr. Derbyshire claims that he has heard muttering in his shrubbery. And on more than one occasion.”
Glynnis Hoving, The Multiplication Murders.
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