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“Which is worse, the fool or the coward?”  Neither is worse.  Actually, they are both good.  They are very good indeed.

Paul Uccelo, The Enigma of the Box.

I have drifted along in an appalling way—aloof from my family, from friends.  Having an occasional thought.  Jotting down a few words.  What could that add up to?  Does summation even apply here?

Dennis W. Sylvester, Confessions of a Moon Man.

Actors:  All eyes are on them, as they pretend such and such.

Gunther Pinks, A Paranoid’s Pitiful Propositions.

One advantage of superficiality is that one cannot notice that one dwells merely at the surface.

Dennis W. Sylvester, Confessions of a Moon Man.

“Who asked them?  Who did ask them?  To vote on the entries for some damned award that must be given?”

Mildred Cummings, Murder and Poetry.

Avoid the light day and night.

Terence Theodore, Proverbs for a New Era.

All physical laws are tautologies.  All of them.  Little circles that go round and round.

Dieter Borst,  Introduction to the Mathematics of Elasticity.

To deride modernist art is to engage in Philistinism.  The modernists established this notion quite early, in order to conceal the fact that they are the Philistines.

Tyrone Sommer, Circling the Drain.

Pretense:  Today, this word refers to a way of being.

Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.

The kinetic theory of gases.  Classical mechanics.  Mendel’s theory.  The first law of thermodynamics.  Gravitational theory.  All of these are so plausible.  They are so close.  But, alas, not quite there.

Roland Pointer,  A Treatise on Moral Exhibitionism.