“Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll” is a redundancy. Only the latter part needs saying.
Joscelyn Humboldt, Do the Stomp: The Story of Rock.
[Crowley] did have a keen sense of the “absurdity of life.” But a keen sense of the absurdity of himself (and his pursuits) was lacking.
Constance Euphemia, Ordo Templi Orientis and the Corridors of Modernism.
Sometimes it is interesting to see idiocy carried out to its logical conclusion.
Rollo Marquardt, Dwelling in the Cupcake World.
Anger is a force, not a point of view.
Terence Theodore, Proverbs for a New Era.
Relativism: An absolute.
Callista Ralph, Alphabet Soup.
The rough descent through Tulku Gorge, where one trudges in and out of fog banks and where stones fall from invisible heights….
Sal Aurobindo, The Immersion in Matter.
Politician: One who never stops pretending that he is not inadequate.
W. Karl Bavinger, The Misanthrope’s Way With Words.
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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
That one probabilistic statement (P90) is more likely than another (P50) says nothing at all about what will happen. We can rank our predictions, but we cannot really predict.
Christopher Valerian, In Search of Boundary Conditions.
They looked at their culture (the nineteenth century) and concluded: “We have nothing.” Apparently, this judgment was made with great ease.
Teresa Ravens, The Lives of Helena Blavatsky.
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