“If he didn’t want to be dead, perhaps he shouldn’t have been in the lion cage. Did you ever think of that?”
Silas Burbage, The Adventurous Half-Life of Buddy Boyo.
“And he told me—smiling all the while—that he was hoping for the best Apocalypse ever.”
Tristan Holyoke, A Tree Full of Monkeys.
They will say that such and such begs the question. What they mean is that it begets a question.
Alex Twist, A Primer of Posturing.
“Among other things, he asked me if I thought that OJ was still searching for the real killer.”
Diana Moone, Living Well.
In English, any typographical error is potentially a pun.
Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.
Anyone can have reasons.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
Minutiae matter most. Nothing means more than the small things.
Teresa Ravens, The Lives of Helena Blavatsky.
Who will assume [Gertrude Stein’s] mantle? Who will seek to kill the twentieth century dead?
Olmstead Trent III, The History of Objects.
“Edith, please tell me, what is the idea behind that hair-do? I’m baffled. Can you help a guy?”
Wilson Phelps, Reaching Out.
“Could it be, Roberta, that he is far more complex than we could ever hope to know?”
Wilson Phelps, Reaching Out.
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