The notion of uncertainty concerning one year from now is simple to accept. Uncertainty over the next five minutes, however, presents a challenge.
Nigel Swoone, Old Theories of Time.
“Once we have come to know the person’s feelings on the matter, what else could possibly concern us?” Malcolm had that way of putting his derision into interrogative form.
Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.
When the [sleeper] awakens, sleep does not end but only changes.
Cyrus Donato, Nodes and Internodes.
Trap a Yezidi inside a circle and he will die there. He cannot escape.
Mirri Alfassa, Theory of the Hollow Earth.
When we came back from the supermarket with Cocoa Puffs instead of Count Chocula, Beverly hit the roof.
Charles Jeffrey Yett, Writing in Miniature—Vol. Three.
Question: What is dangerous, first and foremost?
Answer: Believing people.
Maynard Bittle, Order in Magnitude.
Dishonesty is the natural order; honesty must be attained.
Edward Beverly III, Our Manifold Defects.
Is there anyone alive today who seriously believes that we have not “spoken” enough?
Gaylord Perry III, The Walls of Magnus Martyr.
[Vickering] confessed that, upon viewing a number of modernist paintings, he would sometimes feel a distinct nausea. And he wondered whether that might be an intention of the works.
Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.
What do we call the attempt to abolish something that does not exist?
Melanie Oswald, Nine-Hundred Delphic Questions.
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