The sophisticated class today is unique in being absolutely unashamed of its ridiculousness.
Hill Boothby, Essays on Disappointment Management.
Maintaining the important lies is so much more valued than a humdrum honesty.
P. J. Cahoon, The History of Crime.
“Remember, Elizabeth, that the official story is just a story.“
Beatrice Landers, The Case of the Missing Detective.
“As an editor,” chirped Jeremy, “my job is to make the writing even worse.”
Burdyce Goode, Wonderful With Dogs.
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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
Some things to do at daybreak:
—let in the morning air
—wipe the dust off two shoes
—consider ways to change the facts
—use the word “crumble”
—fill the house with a pleasant aroma
—write letters for an hour or two
—think fifteen minutes ahead
—be drowsy but do not doze
Tessa Fielding and Constance Gogarty, A Book of Lists.
“Girls are pretty, caring, and kind.” That was young Albert’s mantra. And repeat it he did. Again and again.
Burdyce Goode, Philosophy of Vegetables.
How to locate common sense? Just look for those notions that seem unpopular.
Hugh Drummond, A Canine World.
At least Kandinsky et alia made no attempt to continue in the way of van der Weyden and Durer and Caravaggio and de la Tour. For this we owe a profound debt to Modernism. Just think of the embarrassment prevented.
Crispin Trove, The Viewer as Pest.
To characterize Henry Miller’s writing, Spalding needed but a single word: persistent.
Anthony Scowling, The Beat Paradigm.
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