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.
A proposition is self-evident, we will say. But is it self-evident that it is so?
Lawrence Rittle, The Fundamentals of Confusion.
The only rigorous feature of contemporary science is exclusion of the divine.
Lincoln Collings, The Past Regarded as a Small Bowl.
“We must destroy Felix immediately. And destroy all those who associate with him. Until there is not a single professional circus clown left in this world.”
Nicholas Crisp, A Suitcase Fell on Her Head.
February 12, 2013. The most recent addition to my swelling collection of words to despise and avoid: “folks”.
Reginald Boyington, Dear Dreadful Diary.
“You have no one to blame but yourself, Mr. Hathaway. You, and that vicious snarling sarcasm.”
Timothy Waldo, The Important Things.
The world is filled with the obvious.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
“I can assure you, Doctor, that I am perfectly serious. He simply was that kind of cat.”
Will Davies, She Would If She Could.
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