Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
From Mason Cooley
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
Rereading, we find a new book.
Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.
Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.
Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.
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