“You’re a guy stuff happens to, Tommy. You have that knack. Or perhaps it has you?”
Sylvester Wickham, He Wishes To See You.
“And remember, young lady, that anything good in this life is strictly illusion. Only the bad things are real.”
Angela Unseld, ed., Letters from Uncle Hal.
There should be no limit placed on the contempt that one has for actors.
Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.
Such-and-such is the case. Always.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
Materiality is ridiculous.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
Try as he might, Trevor could never account for all of his assumptions.
Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.
Philosophy: Explanations by explainers who might not exist.
Callista Ralph, Alphabet Soup.
The salient feature of psychoanalysis—as in all psychology—is its dependability. Apply the method on any matter, and one is sure to come up with something.
Paul Uccelo, The Enigma of the Box.
On that cold damp morning in November, Mr. Ambrose felt that there could not possibly be a more ridiculous world.
Victoria Salt, A Compendium of Opening Lines.
“Remember?” replied George, with only mild irritation. “Of course I’ll remember. All I do is remember.”
Lawton Trumbull, The Three Days.
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