“And remember, young lady, that anything good in this life is strictly illusion. Only the bad things are real.”
Angela Unseld, ed., Letters from Uncle Hal.
There should be no limit placed on the contempt that one has for actors.
Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.
Such-and-such is the case. Always.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
Materiality is ridiculous.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
Try as he might, Trevor could never account for all of his assumptions.
Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.
Philosophy: Explanations by explainers who might not exist.
Callista Ralph, Alphabet Soup.
The salient feature of psychoanalysis—as in all psychology—is its dependability. Apply the method on any matter, and one is sure to come up with something.
Titus Musgrave, The Enigma of the Box.
“Her name is Gay Terebesy.”
“Terebesy? That’s an unusual name, isn’t it?”
“”She’s an unusual girl. And always was. A wonderful girl. Sparkling.”
Burton Hoyle, Getting There.
“Remember?” replied George, with only mild irritation. “Of course I’ll remember. All I do is remember.”
Lawton Trumbull, The Three Days.
It rained cats all morning long,
and dogs in the afternoon.
The sky was stitched of gingham,
The sun a lost balloon.
[from “On Thorny’s Farm”]
Miles Bantry, ed., Mister Roode’s Rustic Tales.
