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“Nothing is genuine anymore,” said Jeremy.  “Even when it is.  Even then.”

Giles Coxe-Coburn, Belief in Insects.

…the paramount importance of self—of feeling, of experiencing, of expressing.  The counterculture [of the sixties] distributed this to one and all.

Chelsea Jane Manning, The Feast of Plenty.

“Big fish eat little fish” is not charming.  It is brutal, and brutal beyond comprehension.  That is why we do not try to comprehend it.

Clifford O. Mounce,  A Portable Darkness.

enter   fear

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

“And I think,” continued Peters, “that we should let others decide what words we are to use.”

Corliss Archer, Boarding the Crazy Train.

The intelligentsia today behave as though they hate the past.  But it is just the opposite:  History hates them.

Jackson Currothers III, The View From the Cauldron.

“The world is now a place of greater clarity,” cried Trevor.  “And it’s all because of one sentence spoken by you.”

Giles Coxe-Coburn, Tooth and Claw.

“I have never liked fog,” declared Brenda, defiantly and resolutely.

Christina Rubb, The Awful Puzzle.

They do not fear the past as such.  They fear being shown to be mediocrities.

Sloane Daniels,  The Ways of Undoing.

Many people are guilty of talking too much.  Some flagrantly.  But Ellen’s vice was that of listening too much.

Gwenda Reid, Murder in Retrospect.