little porky pies
“Yes, Janice, I am secretive. That’s because when I neglect being secretive I always end up being bitterly disappointed.”
Benedict Elder, A Cosmopolitan Paradise.
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“Yes, Janice, I am secretive. That’s because when I neglect being secretive I always end up being bitterly disappointed.”
Benedict Elder, A Cosmopolitan Paradise.
“It just seems to me,” said William, “that we ought to be able to talk about a football match without using the term iteration.”
Charles Jeffrey Yett, Writing in Miniature—Vol. 3.
“But I don’t want an audience, Birdie. Not even a small one. Better dead than read! That’s what I say.”
Myrtle Mawby, Cabinets and Drawers, a Novel.
Lennonism
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
asp ire
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
“Of course Jamison was able to fly in his dreams,” said Thornhill. “But it was a silly way of flying. And it was no damned good.”
Trent Bendix, Patricia Knows Best.
It is all about sophistication. That is the actual commodity, not the fiction itself.
Alice Trinculo, Speaking to Sparrows.
mallets aforethought
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
The burden with Fellini is that you’ve got to watch him. You’ve got to watch him all the time. Otherwise he’ll find a way to drag circus clowns into the thing.
Jeremy Breedlove, A Jaundiced View of the Movies.
Marie Windsor was a handsome woman. So why [in The Killing] did she marry Elisha Cooke, of all people? Because screenwriters forced her to, that’s why.
Jeremy Breedlove, A Jaundiced View of the Movies.
