“Hesitation, of course, is always undesirable. So, by all means, proceed with your dumb idea!” Allen was tired of it all. In fact, Allen had had a belly full.
Charles Jeffrey Yett, Writing in Miniature—Vol. 3.
I am afraid that our kindness, like everything else, has become theoretical.
Tristram Speaker, A Book of Postulates.
“The deceased was an economist. So, of course, he will be missed immensely.” Gavin was indulging in the kind of sarcasm that he found so charming.
Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.
“I am trying so very hard! Isn’t that an amazing thing? Shouldn’t I be celebrated?” Howard was contemplating what is meant by the word culture.
Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.
A pink oblong box, with a name printed on the lid: Dora’s Smart Shop—Dallas. A shoe box. A shoe box is full of photographs. There is something autumnal about loose photos, isn’t there? The small ones. Snaps. Old ones. A box full of leaves. Black and white. Some are miniatures, with ragged borders.
Della Baskerville, Selected Memories.
“Whoah! Another thing that cannot be said! That must not be said. Oh, they will thrash it all out of me. In broad daylight. Bitterly. With big sticks.”
Tristan Holyoke, A Tree Full of Monkeys.
Multitasking: Because the things we do today are so devoid of substance, many people have come to believe that they are capable of engaging in more than one of these at the same time.
Hallie van Groote, The Varieties of Happiness.
Culture persists only because we cannot think of what to do. Minute after minute.
Hans Paulus, How Pictures Look At Us.
The misery of perception. Now, where does John Locke talk about that? Or Berkeley? Or Hume?
Reed Harlowe, The House of Empiricism.
“How do I express myself? By what means?” thought Harold. “By laughter and by groaning.”
Chadwick Graves, One Damned Thing After Another.
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