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Any object is somewhat like any other object.

Royce Michaels, The Kingdom of Ice.

Words cast a spell upon an audience.

Dennis W. Sylvester, Confessions of a Moon Man.

As Engels noted more than once, conspiracy schemes do not require puppeteers.

Hilbert Kaasa, The Fabian Way.

In the future, anything not prohibited will be mandatory.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

…only certain things—only a few things—are natural. Mountains, for example. Or boulders.

Titus Musgrave, The Enigma of the Box.

“Not ‘resonate’, Andrews. But ‘operate’. The words operate.”

Marston Moore, Sweet Meteor of Death.

“Of course, I decided to start laughing in that manner quite some time ago,” said Todd, after emitting a long horrible screeching noise.

Charles Jeffrey Yett, Writing in Miniature—Volume Three.

Sophistication: upside down.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

Criteria are post facto.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

He opened the slip of paper, to reveal a large rubber-stamped image in blue: the numeral seven followed by an exclamation point. Was it “7” factorial? (That is, 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1?) Was it an emphatic “seven!”? (A seven that really means it?) Or was it merely the conjunction of two arbitrary signs? There was no way to determine an answer. It was unknowable.

Timothy Waldo, The Important Things.