Overheard through a door: “Can’t you appreciate that I am an art writer!? And that I am quite busy?”
Jackson Currothers III, The View From the Cauldron.
Our progress occurs in discrete episodes. And this is so much better than a single big nightmarish wave.
Victoria Salt, A Compendium of Opening Lines.
—What has life in the twenty-first century taught you, Einar? If anything.
—That lies become truth, simply through repetition.
Philip Cavendish, Tilly’s Treasury of Colloquial Bits.
The boredom of the truly rich is infinitely more interesting than our own.
Rollo Marquardt, Dwelling in the Cupcake World.
In order to remember, we first must wait. Waiting is required.
Maynard Bittle, Order in Magnitude.
When I am told that so-and-so has great ideas concerning some important matter, I will sometimes resolve to look into it (i.e., read the book, watch the video, whatever). But first, I make an effort to prepare myself for the horror that is sure to come.
Dennis W. Sylvester, Confessions of a Moon Man.
“One Must Hide and Remain Hidden.” Chandler felt that this might just be the one. The new motto.
Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.
“But that was two sentences ago,” exclaimed Thornton. “I was a different person then.”
Darko Rivenbark, Snapshots.
The extent of the Psychology Industry demonstrates that we have entirely too much time to notice ourselves.
Rollo Marquardt, Dwelling in the Cupcake World.
We inevitably reach this point: no one can teach manners (restraint) because no one knows manners.
Patricia Dowling, The Past Considered as a Small Bowl.
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