Occasionally, Mike would refer, in a hushed tone, to people he called “the unsympathetic overseers.”
Pryce Cummings, Rattle Box.
“For Extraordinary Achievement in Style.” Now that is how the medallion should read, thought Harry.
Mark Anthony, The Tale of the Mirror.
Most images are stupid looking.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
The internet is forever.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
What is the difference between having no videos at all and having tens of millions of videos that will never be watched? Why do we attribute inherent value to plenitude?
Hill Boothby, Essays on Disappointment Management.
“We are pagans!” Devon enthused. “And, hey, everything is good! Everything is really good.”
Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.
It became a meteorite only after it had gone clunk, right on top of Miss Stacie’s head.
Will Southey, Government Cheese, the Novel.
It is as though W. Kandinsky devised a set of rules, and we are somehow obligated to follow them.
Crispin Trove, The Viewer as Pest.
November 11, 2012. It strikes me that hardly anyone writes novels nowadays—suggesting that it is very difficult to do. On the other hand, everybody and his dog is busy writing miniatures. So, easy to do?
Reginald Boyington, Dear Dreadful Diary.
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