Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
The modern police system is in spirit the most inhuman in history, and its evil belongs to an age and not to a nation.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What I Saw in America
A man denounces marriage as a lie, and then denounces aristocratic profligates for treating it as a lie.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
Oh, Mother, if only you knew how cruelly I’ve been tricked by a conspiracy of sub-humans.
John Kennedy Toole • A Confederacy of Dunces
'I won't tell,' he promised, turning to leave, and one had to remember he was a liar who always told the truth.
Clifford Thurlow • Sex, Surrealism, Dali and Me: A biography of Salvador Dali
No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.
Flannery O'Connor • A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other 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
God is alone—but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (Illustrated)
“I’ll kill him though,” he said. “In all his greatness and his glory.” Although it is unjust, he thought. But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures.