With The Third Man, it’s like the film is the puppet master and the viewer is the marionette.
Albrecht Luggens, Ways of Serving Time.
threw a glass starkly
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
Whom do I blame when things go well?
Otis Oswald, 900 Delphic Questions.
The idea was to write small, yes. But to move it all beyond—or outside of—the potential oppressiveness of the free-standing aphorism.
Jason Starling, Scale in Literature.
Sometimes I feel tired. And that makes things even worse. Because, of course, I haven’t done anything.
Axel Porphyrie, Doing Without Knowing.
Espousing “cultural relativism” is a common form of insincerity.
Ambrose Glendenning, The Crumbling Modern Buildings.
Their critique of the culture is itself a manifestation of the frivolity of that culture.
Hans Baldung-Grien, Postmodernist Moments.
Culture: a set of instructions concerning what to notice and what not to notice.
W. Karl Bavinger, The Misanthrope’s Way With Words.
The world I dwell in is one in which argument can gain no foothold. It is all about sentiment, about strategies of feeling.
P. J. Cahoon, The History of Crime.
We have a culture. That does not mean that we know how to design a culture.
Nigel Swoone, Old Theories of Time.
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