Disclaimer: No animal was offended during the production of this motion picture.
Jeremy Breedlove, A Sardonic View of the Movies.
What we call rationality is a greater mystery than the issues that we address with it.
Stefan Muntz, Entropic Processes in Architecture.
Modernity is haunted by the myth of human cleverness.
Jackson Currothers III, The View From the Cauldron.
When the inevitable revision of deconstructionism does arrive, it should be swift and deadly. Then comes the laughter.
Mills Verbruggen, The Isle of Dogs.
—What are you? Some kind of philosopher or something?
—I think philosophy is funny. Does that count?
Philip Cavendish, Tilly’s Treasury of Colloquial Bits.
My Plea: Please stop writing! All of you!
My Proposition: I’ll stop writing if everyone else will.
Benjamin Alexis, Thriving Under the Influence.
Load everyone onto an island. And, then, in utter confidence, set all the boats adrift. Boats are now the old way, and we no longer need them.
Alice D’Annunzio, Rereading the Funny Papers.
Kristin boasts of being on the right side of history. Of course, this reduces “history” to something like a board game.
Rollo Marquardt, Dwelling in the Cupcake World.
“Well of course I don’t know. I can’t know. There is no way I could know.” And there you have it. George’s inability to know. Laid bare.
Charles Jeffrey Yett, Writing in Miniature—Vol. Three.
“This is the twenty-first century, Linda. We don’t have time for the truth. We barely have time to admire ourselves for having the proper feelings.”
Ruth Ledgerwood, Death by Logic.
dennis scharnberg 