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“Sex is theater,” said Carlotta.  “Bad, sticky theater.”

Giles Coxe-Coburn,  Belief in Insects.

Any halfway-definitive list of things that I despise about myself will begin with the lazy way that I dot the letter “i.”

Algernon Webb,  A Speculative Autobiography.

Of course, Mr. Waverly was quick to add that he would want to protect his own work from anything even resembling an audience.

Trent Bendix,  Patricia Knows Best.

June 6, 2001.  I found myself coming round to this thought again and again today, with growing bitterness.  So I will simply state it: “Thank you, Dr. Freud!”

Reginald Boyington,  Dear Dreadful Diary.

It’s an inversion: They believe that it is their perceptions that validate the world.

Alistair Danning,  An Anecdotal History of Radicalism.

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Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

[Golda Sachs] proclaimed that “we must erase all things that dull the revolutionary impulse.”  Apparently she did not regard that statement as being one of those “things”.

Palmer Coates,  The Dark Afternoon of the Soul.

“A picture is worth a thousand words.”  “Pictures are worthless.”  Is there a contradiction here?

Titus Musgrave,  The Mystery of Sleep.

And what would Alinsky have us do?  Lie, lie, lie, and lie.  Then, point at our enemy and say, “Liar!”

Paul McCutcheon,  A Phenomenology of Moral Theater.

We must never notice the way things are.  We must confine our attention to how our theories are.

Paul Uccelo,  The Enigma of the Box.