Once accused, denial is proof of guilt. And, of course, admission is also proof of guilt.
Winslow Crabb, A More Satisfactory World.
…[Terrazi] said of polyphony that once you start looking into it, it becomes vast.
Keenan Mulvaney, The Continued Existence of All Things.
We used to look at the photographs. Now, the photographs look at us.
Anthony Falfurrias, A Shiny Piece of Thought.
Hylas: What will shatter the one who would repair the world?
Philonous: Unintended consequences.
Cedric Plumm, Calpurnia’s Dream and Other Essays.
Whatever his shortcomings, Roger is most generous with that smirk of his.
Carla Marks, The Murder Matter.
In her writing, Patricia was quite unafraid of the big issues—love, death, truth, art,….
Priscilla Onkers, All About Edward.
Politics: a particularly vile branch of the entertainment industry.
Callista Ralph, Alphabet Soup.
More odd expressions:
—Who wears the shoes in that family?
—crazy as a button
—rigorous degradation
—into the Palladian gloom
—explaining the explanation
—unremarkable orbit
—pretty as a book
—face down in dirty snow
—a nether place that wants tending
—a reasonable member of the general community
Tessa Fielding and Constance Gogarty, A Book of Lists.
“Western culture is irremediably evil.” Alyssa typed these words with great confidence, and then pressed “Send.”
Delbert Arbogast, The Null Hypothesis and Other Stories.
We didn’t invent language. It just sort of came along and inhabited us.
Hans Baldung-Grien, Post-Modernist Moments.
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