“Regarding that intelligence test, sir? I wonder, could you tell me who wrote the questions?”
Benedict Elder, A Cosmopolitan Paradise.
“I am so smart,” thought Hildy. “And I agree with what that fellow just said. So, he must be smart too.”
Corliss Archer, Boarding the Crazy Train.
People can and do have dirty minds. But, of course, we could never be quite sure of that until Mr. James Joyce demonstrated it to us in his wonderful novel Ulysses. Thank you, Mr. Joyce!
Rollin Mungo, Selected Rants of Mr. Barraclough.
We are all novelists.
Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.
“Talbot had that knack for deceptive wording. Whether that made him a literary man or a demon I couldn’t say. But he did possess that skill.”
Will Bestwyck, Letters From Mr. Palindrome.
Time is either everything or it is nothing. It cannot be a mere ingredient.
Titus Musgrave, The Mystery of Sleep.
“Hey, don’t make me laugh! Okay? That’s all I ask of anyone.”
Tristan Holyoke, A Tree Full of Monkeys.
Economics: A horrible, horrible mistake.
Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.
If you repeat a statement often enough, you will alter reality.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
“At that point, he presented a sealed envelope. He told me that it contained nine-thousand dollars, in large denominations. Of course there was no way to determine what it contained. There was only his word on the matter.”
Virgil Simms, The Case of the Frivolous Factotum.
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