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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.

—On a scale of one to ten, with ten being the worst, what would you say your pain level is?

—One.

Philip Cavendish, Tilly’s Treasury of Colloquial Bits.

Film since 1970:  more sex, more profanity, more violence.  Better movies?

Dorothy Edwin, Nicole Is Defunct.