Seek out the rebel. And look closely. There you will find a conformity that is almost mechanical.
Gaddis Gann, Essays on the Pre-Socratics.
My advice to you is this: Don’t be “sorry.” But if you must be sorry, then be sorry about the craters on the moon.
Sondra Wattle, The Long Lonely Winter Evenings.
How dare my ancestors fail to provide me with the aptitudes that I would prefer to have!
Hecuba Gathers, A Purely Physical World.
Choose some things to dislike, and cling to them.
Cooper W. Barthelme, A Systems Approach to Advice.
Where there is a wool there is a weigh.
Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Philosophical and Literary Fragments of Gregory Sallust.
Trite: A word that contemporary artists pretend not to fear.
Callista Ralph, Alphabet Soup.
The problem with the High Critical Language of the art historian: it’s so easy to make it support utter nonsense.
Gunnar Grimes, The Persistence of Vision.
Gap: A space between two or more reference points. All gaps are unbridgeable.
Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.
Here is something that I have come to regret deeply: running out of ways to express my contempt.
Gunther Pinks, A Paranoid’s Pitiful Propositions.
People today are too busy to reflect on anything. Too busy noticing themselves.
Rollo Marquardt, Living in the Cupcake World.
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