Before speaking or writing, consider what words you are not permitted to say and then look around you and figure out whom or what you are not allowed to criticize. Then, proceed with your freedom of expression.
Cooper W. Barthelme, A Systems Approach to Advice.
Want to change something? Find the word we use to refer to this thing, and just change the definition of that word. Marx meets Derrida (at the Barnum and Bailey Circus).
Rollo Marquardt, Dwelling in the Cupcake World.
Thomas has developed a theory of economics, and that theory can be stated in nine brief sentences.
Grayling Stott, An Inventory of Characters.
Ours is a culture of short-cuts. Modernist art , therefore, should come as no surprise.
Austin Janes, The Great Book of Admissions.
In an anonymous internet film review, I found this lofty aesthetic praise: “I was never bored.”
Desmond W. Foote, More Pedestrian Observations.
Most “order” is meaningless. Not so much irrational as arational.
Maynard Bittle, Order in Magnitude.
Irritation: an inelegant proof of existence.
Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.
a symmetry
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
Resentment: an immensity.
Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.
Hegel, Marx, Engels—all these guys were made for prime time television. They were just born too soon.
Jackson Currothers III, The View From the Cauldron.
