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“She was awfully pretty,” said Martens.  “Terribly.  Horribly.”

Thaddeus Crewes,  Crowded Evil World.

“I don’t worship the clergy, Linda. They are not the thing. But I do my best to tolerate them.”

Deane Marlowe,  Theory of Dirt.

Koolius  Caesar.

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

We dwell upon a silk sofa carried on the backs of our ancestors.

Chalmers Van Nest,  The Trivial Quadrivium.

There is a sense of panic that descends upon us when we begin to realize that those who are lying to us are stupid.

Tyler Boots,  Axios Means Worthy.

Two propositions presented on a bright, balmy day:  (1) the Enlightenment was a mistake and (2) the Internet was a mistake.

Hunter Hogarth,  Raised by Wolves.

“…no, she was taking sociology courses so, of course, I avoided her like the plague.”

Everson Dwight,  Theory of Machines, a Novel.

“Just how sophisticated can a person be?”  That, sir, was the question of the day.  Of the week.  Of the year!

Clifford Apogee,  Draining the Pools—A Collection of Stories.

But self-absorption leads inevitably—almost mechanically—to boredom.  That is how we are put together.

Desmond Urquhart,  The Unsocial Sciences.