You must change your routines. Of course, this entails two distinct perplexities: (1) discovering your routines and then (2) resisting the urge to become fascinated by them.
Max Podbellion, The Polymer Way.
…but when will people say how embarrassed they are by the internet?
Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.
What do we do best? Lie to ourselves. (It’s autonomic.)
Kieran Shanahan, Their Mutual Friend.
The sneer does not know.
Ambrose Biers, Angelic Assertions.
Desmond has the hormones and all that. That’s not the issue. No, it is the cultural weight of sex that wearies him.
Priscilla Onkers, All About Edward.
According to science, distortion of physical reality is OK (as long as the distortion simplifies).
Derek Anscombe, Daylight or Cool White.
491. You cannot know how stupid a person is until you ask him and he tells you.
Trevor Martens, A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.
That “insipid boring bourgeois way” is just what makes the steady world possible. And without the steady world, how does the grubby odoriferous unemployable Karl Marx ever manage to write his books?
Patricia Dowling, The Past Considered as a Small Bowl.
780. Set a goal. At least try to achieve stagnation.
Nicholas James Barnarby, ed., Dr. Sonderborg’s Book of DOs and DON’Ts.
