[Sometimes] the constraints on an ideology operate only on a structural level—for example, whether there are complete sentences.
Hilbert Kaasa, Designing Arguments.
—I’m sorry, Inspector, but it’s all just a blur to me.
—That’s all right, Mrs. Hitchens. Some things are a blur.
Hilary Fewkes, The Banality Killings.
What do we lack? A vocabulary of self-restraint. What do we possess? A vocabulary of blame.
Winston Joyce, Bovine Egalitarianism and Other Essays.
“Fact” belongs on the solemn list of Unfamiliar Words.
Octavius Kinder, A Sustainable Unhappiness.
Quantity is quality.
Terence Theodore, Proverbs for a New Era.
Alicia was impressed—even moved—by Edmund’s use of the word “therefore.”
Sebastian Sleeve, The Random Walk and Other Tales.
Rock is the only music that does the listening for you.
Ambrose Mayne, Angelic Assertions.
In all cases, idealization is a form of escape.
Nigel Swoone, Old Theories of Time.
He says that it was “thought out very carefully.” But whatever does he mean by carefully?
Sebastian Sleeve, The Random Walk and Other Tales.
“I remember him telling us that his own mother had done time. And insisting that she had turned out the better for it.”
Ellery Close, The Erasmus Homicides.
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