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Ah, if he could only die
Mark Twain • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
As a politician, he will cry out that war is a waste of life, and then, as a philosopher, that all life is waste of time.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Man of the Crowd.
Merlin Coverley • Psychogeography
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
The imbeciles are not content to calumniate, to persecute, to make wretched the artist in his lifetime. They follow him with their praise to the grave—the grave that they have digged! Praise of the populace! Praise of a race of pigs! For, you see, while they are insulting the dead with their compliments they are at the same time insulting the livin
... See moreArthur Machen • The Secret Glory
Father grinned and winked at his visitor. Joe Kane decided that the man who confronted him was mildly insane but harmless.
Paul Negri • Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers: Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Daniel Defoe, Thomas Hardy, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, ... more (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)
I simply await the day that they drag me to some air-conditioned dungeon and leave me there beneath the fluorescent lights and soundproofed ceiling to pay the price for scorning all that they hold dear within their little latex hearts.
Walker Percy • A Confederacy of Dunces
abandon hopelessness, all ye who enter here.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
My impetuosity some times compelled him to have resort to misrepresentations and untruths.