“I take back what I was saying yesterday,” said Collins. “I take back everything I have said since the day I was born.”
Victoria Salt, A Compendium of Opening Lines.
“The future is known,” said Frederick, almost shouting. “It is the past that keeps changing.”
Hugh Chumley, Making Martha Happy.
Soaring melodic lines that seem ready to drift off out of reach. Pulled back to us, barely.
Olmstead Trent III, The History of Objects.
Please name the movie:
—You’re crazy as a rabbit.
—He was kidding the pants off you, son.
—Tie a ribbon around it!
—All right, I’m not always smart.
Jeremy Breedlove, A Sardonic View of the Movies.
When destroying a culture, it is crucial to do it legally.
Desmond Urquhart, The Unsocial Sciences.
“It’s just another way of saying that we are over here and logic is over there.”
Rollin Mungo, Selected Rants of Mr. Barraclough.
“I stole a picture of a young lady on a bench. I stole a picture of the old bridge at sunset.” We used to talk that way about photography. An honest way.
Cedric Plumm. All Roads Lead.
Rights are tactics.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
In response to the rain, Roger muttered two words only: “Shut up.”
Charles Jeffrey Yett, Writing in Miniature—Volume Three.
Besides thyselfe, Lucinda,
What do I love best?
Silence is all.
Not a squeak! Nor a vowell
Nor consonance shall stand.
Anthony Dudley, “The Widow Weepeth.” (1620)
Priscilla Fanning, Fragments From the Jacobean Stage.
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