The Fabians embraced the notion that every little bit of damage helps.
Hubert Ambrose, You Kant Because Hegel Won’t Let You.
Shouldn’t one think before thinking?
Godfrey Tooke, A Collection of Aphorisms.
Internet: a disease for which no one wants the cure.
Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.
Boredom: what happens when his distractions fail him.
Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.
[Jannings] is said to have claimed this as a conversational stratagem: to speak in such a way that no witnesses could ever quite agree on exactly what he had said.
Kellen Baxendale, The Night Season.
Terence reminded us all: “I will always endeavor to do my best in all things. My very best. It is my core principle.” But Christina had to wonder—would this extend to yawning, closing a door, tying shoelaces, eating toast,…?
Alberta Traywick, Susannah’s Accident.
The cell phone brings us to the nightmare asymptote of photography: Everyone is capable of photographing anything at any time.
Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.
The domicile is the most thorough illusion of all: We are now alone; we are now protected.
Alice Trinculo, Speaking to Sparrows.
“To look upon the world with new eyes.” Eyes that are conditioned by Modernism, with all of its habits, reflexes, and prejudices.
Hester Stills, The New Academy.
We must remember this: One cannot be interested in everything.
Trevor Albertus, Malevolent Asymmetry.
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