“I’m done with it. I am done with it!” Eddie was more than satisfied with his ability to speak in the current idiotic way.
Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.
A woman’s head, a very large one, seemed so assured. Self-confidence in two dimensions. Alongside the road. A colossus (but female). Not to be looked at. An enormous left eye singled me out. It followed me, inch by inch. Perhaps it still follows, haunting me. To this day. So majestic it was. And perched so high above the little world.
Chadwick Graves, One Damned Thing after Another.
More embarrassing words of our time: (1) eponymous, (2) sadly, (3) massive, (4) misplaced, (5) absolutely, (6) discredited, (7) taxonomy, (8) activist, (9) uncertainty.
Clifford O. Mounce, A Portable Darkness.
Aesthetics is essentially a series of smudges.
Ambrose Tulpp, All Manner of Things.
In a world of niceness, the nicest thing of all is the nice feeling that comes from being nice.
Victoria Salt, A Compendium of Opening Lines.
Calvin believes that handwriting should be abandoned completely and replaced with foot writing. He believes this, and about a dozen other things.
Ralston Dowd, A Spot of Bother.
To all questions seeking permission, the answer should be “No.” And “No” and “No” and “No” and….
Dennis W. Sylvester, Confessions of a Moon Man.
“In the morning—the first thing tomorrow—I am going to compile a list of words never to use. And I do mean never.“
Will Southey, Government Cheese, the Novel.
“I think that everything is interesting, and that we deceive ourselves into believing that only certain things are interesting.” Irene was feeling just the slightest hint of irritation with her culture.
Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.
Please name the films:
“You’ve got to watch them. You’ve got to watch them all the time.”
“Run! Run in the corridor!”
“You fired me, didn’t you? I’ve got to eat, don’t I?”
Jeremy Breedlove, A Sardonic View of the Movies.
